Smart Cities, Big Data and Communities: Reasoning from the Viewpoint of Attractors. By Nicola Ianuale, Duccio Schiavon, Enrico Capbianco | IEEE Access 4, 41-47 Special Section: Smart Cities (with Video) (2015). Abstract In what sense is a city smart? There are established entities defining this rich area of cross-disciplinary studies, and they refer to social, technical, economic, and political factors that keep evolving, thus...
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The first FIU-UM Computational Biology Research Day will take place on Wednesday October 9, 2013 at FIU. This Research Day is the first step towards promoting and establishing a computational biology research community in South Florida. The keynote speaker is Keith Crandall, Director of the Computational Biology Institute at George Washington University. The program will include short presentations from FIU and UM faculty, a poster...
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BAOSearch is a web-based application for querying, viewing, browsing, and downloading small molecule biological screening results including high-throughput (HTS) data. BAOSearch has been developed as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Bioassay Ontology (BAO) project. BOASearch is demonstration project, and shows some of the features that can provided to users for search small molecule screening, and other...
Read MoreProject Summary Cancer is a multifactorial disease with a striking heterogeneity due to genetic, epigenetic and transcriptional changes involving a myriad of genes and proteins. While these factors are relevant to clinical prognosis and medical treatment of patients, a system's approach is needed to unravel the complexities underlying intertwining carcinogenesis mechanisms. Given accurate experimental measurements, the presence at...
Read MoreProject Summary While viruses cause significant proportion of cancers, their real impact in cancer etiology and complications is still unknown. Indeed, viruses may be implicated in cancer more frequently than previously considered, which may lead to rethinking cancer treatment and prevention strategies. Little effort so far has been exerted to screen for infectious agents associated with cancer. Our long-term goal is to determine how...
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