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  • May 8, 2008
    Simbios has just begun its search for a new Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow. For more details, see our job announcement.

  • May 7, 2008
    Announcing the 12th issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    Features:
    - On Simulating Growth and Form
    - Assembling the Aging Puzzle: Computation Helps Connect the Pieces

  • April 1, 2008
    New Driving Biological Problem (DBP) launched
    Simbios is excited to announce the launch of the new "Protein Folding" DBP. For more information please visit the Protein Folding DBP page on simtk.org.

  • March 31, 2008
    Annnouncing the 12th issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    Features:
    - Assembling the Aging Puzzle: Computation Helps Connect the Pieces
    - On Simulating Growth and Form

  • March 10, 2008
    SimTK 1.0 released
    The Simbios staff is excited to announce the release of SimTK 1.0. SimTK 1.0 provides a one step install to many components needed for the simulation of biological structures including: Linear Algebra, root finding, vector systems, rotations and the expression of directions, optimization, numerical differentiation and integration, as well as Simbody: a system for rigid multi-body dynamics. A 2-day workshop (http://simbios.stanford.edu/workshop.htm) will be held on March 20-21 to introduce programmers and modelers to the essential features of the toolkit.

  • January 9, 2008
    Annnouncing the 11th issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    Features:
    - Life in Motion: Simulation from Particles to People

  • November 12-15, 2007
    Simbios joined other Stanford groups to present a unique exhibit at Supercomputing ’07, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. The exhibit included extremely high-resolution animations and images from Simbios researchers displayed on a 5x5 monitor display floor, and a demonstration of Folding@Home, a distributed computing project for protein-folding simulations, running on a Sony Playstation3 (http://folding.stanford.edu/).
    - Read more about the event at http://today.slac.stanford.edu/a/2007/11-27.htm.
    - Photos from the event can be viewed at http://picasaweb.google.com/preese/SC07Public.

  • October 27, 2007
    Biomedical Computation at Stanford Symposium (BCATS)
    Simbios is proud to support the  Biomedical Computation Symposium at Stanford, which was held at Cubberley Auditorium at Stanford University. This is not your usual biomedical computation conference.  Stanford students organize this annual conference, where students and post-doctoral fellows share their latest research in the field of biomedical computation. The quality and breadth of the research represented at BCATS draw hundreds of individuals from across the campus and the community. BCATS had four keynote speakers, ten student speakers and 51 poster presenters.

  • October 25, 2007
    Bio-X, Stanford's interdisciplinary life sciences initiative, teamed up with Simbios to hold a memorable symposium entitled: "Life in Motion". This full day Symposium featured ten speakers that presented physics-based simulation research from molecules to organisms. Our latest edition of the Biomedical Computation Review includes interviews with the speakers and summarizes this memorable event.

  • October 5, 2007
    Annnouncing the tenth issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    Features:
    - Computing the Ravages of Time: Using Algorithms To Tackle Alzheimer's Disease
    - Genetic Variants and Ill Health: Scanning 500,000 SNPs Yields Gene-Disease Connections

  • August 27-31, 2007
    A SimVascular short course was held at the Clark Center at Stanford University.
    SimVascular is Simbios's open source release of tools for cardiovascular simulation. It includes code for reading 3D images, segmenting structures, generating models and meshes, and modeling blood flow in deformable vessels.

  • August 22, 2007
    We are delighted to announce the OpenSim version 1.0 release. View pictures taken at the event and go to Simtk.org/home/opensim to get the newest release.
    OpenSim is a freely available software system that allows you to build, exchange, and analyze musuloskeletal models and dynamic simulations of movement.

  • June 25, 2007
    Annnouncing the ninth issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    Features:
    - Imaging Collections: How They're Stacking Up
    - Dock This: In Silico Drug Design Feeds Drug Development

  • April 4, 2007
    Announcing the eighth issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    Features:
    - Biocomputation Startups: Where does value lie?
    - Modeling Cancer Biology: How mathematical models are transforming the fight agaist cancer

  • January 19, 2007
    Announcing the seventh issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    Features:
    - Computational Biomechanics: Making strides toward patient care
    - Biologically Inspired Computation: Algorithms that mimic nature's tricks

  • October 5, 2006
    Announcing the sixth issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    Features:
    - Microarrays: The search for meaning in a vast sea of data
    - Bringing Supercomputers to Life (Siences)

  • July 17, 2006
    Announcing the fifth issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    Features:
    - Human Versus Machine: Biomedical expertise meets computer automation
    - Computational Biology Catches the Flu: Modeling the bug, the host, the world

  • May 5, 2006
    Science Magazine (www.sciencemag.org) featured SimTK in its NetWatch article on May 5, 2006. Titled "Bodily Functions", Science introduced SimTK's algorithms, applications, and resources that simulate how force and motion affect biology - from molecules to man.
    Science highlighted aortic blood flow by Charley Taylor and Chris Zarins, gait analysis by Scott Delp, and RNA folding by Russ Altman and Dan Herschlag.

  • April 4, 2006
    Simbios announces source code distribution rights for the TAO Dynamics Engine at https://simtk.org/home/tao_de. Under MIT license, TAO provides an intuitive, efficient, commercial, rigid-body dynamics library for modeling, control, and simulation of articulated branching structures.

  • April 4, 2006
    Announcing the release of the new simtk.org web site.
    Simtk.org deploys new resources, algorithms, and applications at simtk.org.

  • April 3, 2006
    Announcing the fourth issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    -The Female Factor: Is the gender gap in computer science carrying over to biomedical computing?
    -Ramping Up to Multiscale: Taking Biomedical Modeling to a New Level

  • March 16, 2006
    Simbios researcher Michael Levitt and student Dahlia Weiss are featured in the Stanford Report: Coming to a screen later this century: Molecular portrait of motor movement

  • January 5, 2006
    Announcing the third issue of the Biomedical Computation Review
    -Three New Building Blocks: Ontologies, cellular and genomic data integration featured at new national centers
    -From Sight To Insight: Visualization tools yield biomedical success stories

  • December 7, 2005
    Welcome to our new Lead Science Officer.
    On December 7th, Dr. Jennie Larkin (NHLBI) was named Lead Science Officer for Simbios.

  • November 22, 2005
    On November 22nd 2005 Simbios held a retreat that all simbios faculty, staff, postdocs, students, NIH Program Officer Peter Lyster and NIH Lead Science Officer Peter Highnam attended.
    Simbios Retreat