Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) and researchers at the Center for Computational Science of the University of Miami received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Small Business Innovation Research) SBIR Award to develop novel assay annotation technology for the CDD Vault leveraging our BioAssay Ontology (BAO). Read more “CDD and IDSC receive NIH SBIR Award”
With the ultimate goal of accelerating the discovery of drugs to regenerate or protect nerves after spinal cord injury, UM Miller School researchers have received a $2.5 million grant to develop a novel database via the Center for Computational Science to enable neuroscientists to search the voluminous and growing number of studies related to nervous system repair, and link relevant data from those studies to other resources. Read more “Researchers to Create World Database for Nervous System Repair”
Saminda Abeyruwan, Justin Stoecker, Andreas Seekircher, and Professor Ubbo Visser accept their trophy at the RoboCup in Mexico City. The College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Computer Science RoboCanes team recently placed 2nd in 3D soccer simulation at the RoboCup 2012 in Mexico City. Read more “RoboCanes Place 2nd in International Robot Soccer Competition”
Congratulations to Drs. Stephan Schurer, Vance Lemmon, Ubbo Visser, and the Cheminformatics Group, recipients of NIH funding for their proposal entitled “LINCS Information FramEwork (LIFE) to Integrate and Analyze Diverse Data set”. This project proposes to develop a novel information system that will help scientists to access and use information generated by the NIH LINCS project and other public data sources. Read more “NIH funds “LIFE””