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We are delighted to announce that part 1 of a two-part themed issue resulting from papers originally submitted to the CompBioMed Conference 2019 has now been published with many articles available for all to read as open source articles, The Royal Society Interface Focus. Part 2 of the themed issue, ...
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How can we provide sustainable and affordable HPC training to the next generation of life sciences graduates and future physicians during a global pandemic? This is the unforeseen question that instigated an ambitious collaboration between CompBioMed core partner University College London and associate partner Alces Flight at the start of ...
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Researchers from the Brunel University have developed a simulation tool that models the viral spread at the sub-national level, the “Flu And Corona virus Simulator” (FACS). FACS incorporates geospatial data from open sources to single building resolution within small predefined regions. Using FACS, the researchers have modelled the spread of ...
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We’d like to announce that our work has been featured in the EuroNews programming within the Futuris section looking at the latest news about the leading scientific and technological research projects in Europe. Project Coordinator, Peter Coveney as well as Andrea Townsend-Nicholson were interviewed from UCL, and Dieter Kranzlmüller and ...
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The Centre for Computational Science (CCS) of University College London (UCL) is offering a fully-funded studentship to a highly motivated candidate to start in September 2020. The studentship will cover tuition fees at UK/EU rate plus a maintenance stipend of £17,285 (tax free) per annum for three years. The post-holder ...
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In our previous blog posts we have highlighted in the work of the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) that High Performance Computing (HPC) resources are an invaluable research tool. Much like their counterparts and colleagues around the world, Japan’s top scientists are now refocusing and accelerating ...
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CompBioMed partners and academics from other research facilities are carrying out research to address the fundamental biological mechanisms of both the SARS-CoV-2 novel corona virus and the COVID-19 disease it causes. The ongoing research also includes an attempt to target the entire viral proteome (entire complement of proteins that is ...
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The use of certain drugs can disturb the rhythm at which hearts beat.  This disruption can have toxic effects on the heart, which are particularly dangerous for those with underlying medical conditions.  Two drugs which are known to have proarrhythmic effects are the antimalarial drugs azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine. Azithromycin and ...
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The Centre for Computational Science (CCS) of University College London (UCL) in collaboration with CBK Sci Con are offering a fully-funded studentship to a highly motivated candidate to start in September 2020. The studentship will cover tuition fees at UK/EU rate plus a maintenance stipend of £17,285 (tax free) per ...
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The use of existing pharmaceutical to treat COVID-19 has several potential benefits over the development of new drugs from the group up, not least that much shorter clinical trials would be needed and production on industrial scales has already been realised in many cases. Andrew Potterton, a PhD student at ...
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