Events - Colloquia & Seminars

CCIS Colloquia Spring 2004
Biological Computing Challenges

Homer Pien, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology
Managing Director, Center for Biomarkers in Imaging
Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Date:Apr 14, 2004
Talk:2pm, 149 Cullinane

Abstract

Within the modern industrialized nations, more people receive the benefits of healthcare through prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals than any other means. Yet despite the historic scientific achievement associated with the deciphering of the human genome, such accomplishments have not translated to increased drug development productivity. One reason is that the application of the computational sciences to biotechnology and biomedicine has lagged behind the tremendous strides made by scientists in understanding the molecular basis of living organisms. We will discuss examples of computational problems that require serious attention in the context of biotechnology and biomedicine, focusing on such problems as molecular simulations, high performance computing, and data mining.