The biomedical domain is extensive and complex. From the perspective of information technology, this complexity translates into multiple, heterogeneous databases, offering limited interoperability. The first step towards getting a better understanding of these resources is for users to be able to visualize and navigate them. This paper presents some issues in visualizing and navigating biomedic...

Since the early 1990s, artificial neural networks play an increasing role in the development of new biomedical systems. In United States, over last decades, the granted biomedical patents that explicitly refer to artificial neural networks in their title, abstract or key references amount to about 50% of the total number of granted biomedical patents with a significant element of computational ...

Since the early 1990s, artificial neural networks play an increasing role in the development of new biomedical systems. In United States, over last decades, the granted biomedical patents that explicitly refer to artificial neural networks in their title, abstract or key references amount to about 50% of the total number of granted biomedical patents with a significant element of computational ...

background: dielectric barrier discharge (dbd), a source of non-thermal plasma, is used in surface decontamination. objective: to study the effect of dbd plasma treatment, we evaluated the effect of plasma exposure time on inactivation of bacillus subtilis. results: applying the dbd plasma to the culture of b. subtilis caused complete sterilization of the surface without any thermal effects. in...

1Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China, 2Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of TCM and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China, 3School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China and 4Department of Pathophysiology, Zhong...

1Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DEMETER, 15310 Athens, Greece 3Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AD, UK 4School of Biomedical Scienc...

We have developed a set of online tools for measuring the semantic similarities of Gene Ontology (GO) terms and the functional similarities of gene products, and for further discovering biomedical knowledge from the GO database. The tools have been used for about 6.9 million times by 417 institutions from 43 countries since October 2006. The online tools are available at: http://bioinformatics....

Natural products from plants in Canadian ecological zones are understudied. There are, however, sound scientific arguments to justify investigation of natural plant species found within these zones. Here, we review a broad range and local literature describing the features prairie zone Asteraceae taxonomical family. Species well represented system, although very few have been investigated for w...

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) has attracted a considerable amount of interest for biomedical application due to its biocompatibility, tailored biodegradation rate (depending on the molecular weight and copolymer ratio), approval for clinical use in humans by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the potential to change surface properties to create better interaction with biologica...