The Gene Ontology (GO), a structured controlled vocabulary of over 15,000 terms, is becoming the de facto standard for describing gene products in terms of their molecular functions, biological processes in which they participate, and the cellular locations in which they are active. However, current annotation editors do not constrain the choice of GO terms users may enter, potentially resultin...

One of the fastest growing fields of technology—a field of astounding recent achievements and even more ambitious hopes—is biomedical engineering. Laboratory instrumentation, medical imaging, cardiac pacemakers, artificial limbs, and computer analysis of the human genome are some of its familiar products. Defined as the use of the principles and techniques of engineering to solve problems in bi...

background : scientific journals are the most credible and updated information resources for valid information in the various fields of science and technology. the present study investigates the status of iranian scientific journals in disseminating medical information to the world of science. methods : total 163 iranian medical journals accredited by national medical journals commission of ira...

introduction: based on iran’s 20-year prospective national vision document, iran may be seen as the most developed country in science and technology in the region by 2025. in this report, bibliometric indicators are used to compare the research productivity in endodontics between iran and 28 selected asian countries. materials and methods: medical subject headings keyword-searching of pubmed up...

Outside Front Cover: Plasma polymers have long been of interest as thin film coatings on biomedical devices and products, to generate desirable surface properties for favourable bio-interfacial interactions. The cover image symbolically depicts plasma's versatility in its ability modify surfaces various purposes. From role fundamental research cell-interfacing use modifying laboratory materials...

Data on safety and efficacy issues associated with natural health products and dietary supplements (NHP&S) remains largely cloistered within domain specific databases or embedded within general biomedical data sources. A major challenge in leveraging analytic approaches on such data is due to the inefficient ability to retrieve relevant data, which includes a general lack of interoperability am...

Biomedical ontologies are particularly successful in the uniformization of the life sciences domain and ontology matching systems are useful to discover relationships between concepts of two different ontologies. However, that is also a limitation as there is a growing interest in discovering more complex kinds of mappings and existing techniques are limited to matching two ontologies. Therefor...

Pharmaceutical and biomedical industries demand simple, safe and reproducible processing methods thus urging the development of novel straightforward manufacturing approaches. The product manufacturing by the green processing of admixtures and end-product would avoid long and costly purification (downstream) steps. In this work, the supercritical fluid technology is used for the green processin...

The current system of biomedical innovation is unable to keep pace with scientific advancements. We propose to address this gap by reengineering innovation processes to accelerate reliable delivery of products that address unmet medical needs. Adaptive biomedical innovation (ABI) provides an integrative, strategic approach for process innovation. Although the term "ABI" is new, it encompasses f...

Chitin and its derivatives-as a potential resource as well as multiple functional substrates-have generated attractive interest in various fields such as biomedical, pharmaceutical, food and environmental industries, since the first isolation of chitin in 1811. Moreover, chitosan and its chitooligosaccharides (COS) are degraded products of chitin through enzymatic and acidic hydrolysis processe...