Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 339 bases. From the perspective of this report, Box 10.3 describes some of the essential int ...

340 CATALYZING INQUIRY Box 10.3 Continued This last point is often misunderstood. For many outsiders, computer science is the sa ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 341 10.2.2.4 Graduate Programs Graduate programs at the BioComp interface are often intended ...

342 CATALYZING INQUIRY somewhat like an M.B.A. with a science requirement. Some programs, such as Stanford’s, are adminis- tered ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 343 A challenge for a field as interdisciplinary as this is that incoming students will arri ...

344 CATALYZING INQUIRY instances, awardees had backgrounds from more traditional biological orientations without the compu- tati ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 345 few dozen predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows. The Keck Center was established in 1990 ...

346 CATALYZING INQUIRY ity specifically do not include previous experience in biomedical research; and thus, computer scientists ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 347 The University of California-Berkeley’s Center for Integrative Genomics was founded in ...

348 CATALYZING INQUIRY formalizing interdisciplinary connections. Fellows participate in new “translational core courses,” es- t ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 349 10.2.4 Industry, Industrial interest in the BioComp interface is driven by the prospect ...

350 CATALYZING INQUIRY As in the case of academic organizations, specific company names provided below are illustrative and hard ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 351 the idea of capitalizing on progress in genetic technologies. Yet because they predate t ...

352 CATALYZING INQUIRY be more successful than others is “in silico” simulation of various biological and biomedical processes, ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 353 Potential impact. All else being equal, institutions would prefer to support research i ...

354 CATALYZING INQUIRY tains the Division of Computational Bioscience, which includes activities in high-performance comput- ing ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 355 A third group of programs is institutional in nature. One program establishes new academ ...

356 CATALYZING INQUIRY lems of how to integrate models that may have widely different physical scales, have discrete or continuo ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 357 tional phylogenetics, functional genomics, and so forth. Within biology, the Frontiers i ...

358 CATALYZING INQUIRY lack of understanding about their metabolic pathways, and knowledge of these pathways may lead to more ef ...