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...Dr Menditto continues "Combining databases from multiple countries exploiting common structural elements will help increasing the cohorts both on numerical and geographical coverage aspects. At the moment there is not a gold standard to perform multiple healthcare database integration among different countries and different health systems. The EIP-AHA represents an opportunity to compare practices, identify common needs and establish good practices and harmonized approaches with a view to maximize the effective exploitation of large data sets and provide the basis for studying population cohorts at European level...

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Agent-based simulations (ABS) are powerful computational tools that help scientists understand complex biological systems. These simulations are an inexpensive and efficient way to quickly test hypotheses about the physiology of cellular tissues, organs, or entire organisms. However, many ABS do not take full advantage of available computational power, and the majority of ABS platforms on the market are designed with a particular use case in mind.

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Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are calling for location data to be withheld from research publications to help protect some rare and endangered species. Lead researcher Professor David Lindenmayer from the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society said more than 20 newly-described species have been targeted by poachers. Professor Lindenmayer said in Australia people were trespassing on private property days after research was published online on the pink tail worm lizard....

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ClinCapture, the only free validated electronic data capture (EDC) software, is pleased to announce its Finalist position in the Cloud Computing category for the 2016 Stratus Awards. Awarded by the Business Intelligence Group, ClinCapture shares the stage with leading companies such as SnapLogic and NetApp. The Stratus Finalist position is the fourth recognition ClinCapture received in the last 8 months for its cloud-based eClinical software and innovations...

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Many conclusions drawn from a common approach to the study of human genetics could be distorted because of a previously overlooked phenomenon, according to researchers at the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute. Their conclusions and a unique method they developed to help correct for this distortion were recently published in Nature Genetics.

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Silicon Therapeutics, an integrated computational drug discovery company creating novel small molecule therapeutics for diseases with challenging protein targets, is pleased to announce that the first Open Science Fellowship will be awarded the laboratory of Dr. John D. Chodera at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). The fellowship is designed to advance the open science movement within the drug discovery industry, facilitating access to scientific knowledge, methods, and data. Patrick Grinaway, a graduate student in the Chodera Lab, will lead the development efforts of the project, entitled “Development of efficient open source free energy-based lead optimization algorithms"...

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A team of researchers, led by Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a low-cost smartphone accessory that can perform a point-of-care test that simultaneously detects three infectious disease markers from a finger prick of blood in just 15 minutes. The device replicates, for the first time, all mechanical, optical, and electronic functions of a lab-based blood test. Specifically, it performs an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) without requiring any stored energy: all necessary power is drawn from the smartphone...

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