Archive for the 'Biology' Category

How to build a QSAR prediction model.

Monday, August 30th, 2010


See www.molsoft.com for more information.

Integrative Biology 131 – Lecture 34: Digestive, Urinary Sys

Monday, August 30th, 2010


Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination. The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals. The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways.

John Quackenbush, PhD – The Human Genome Project

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010


The Lung Genomics Research Consortium’s John Quackenbush, Ph.D., Professor of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at Havard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses his background and his earlier work on The Human Genome Project in 1992 and how this project has shaped his career.

Lec 11 | MIT 7.014 Introductory Biology, Spring 2005

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010


(Prof. Graham Walker) View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu More courses at ocw.mit.edu

Integrative Biology 131 – Lecture 37: Endocrine, Female…

Sunday, August 15th, 2010


Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination. The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals. The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways. The various…

Integrative Biology 131 – Lecture 26: Peripheral Nerves

Thursday, August 12th, 2010


Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination. The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals. The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways. The various…

Automahop 31.3122989581.9183

Monday, August 9th, 2010


This is the first of a series of songs I am doing using Wolfram Tones to automatically generate beats. “WolframTones is based on a core discovery in Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science: in the computational universe, even extremely simple rules or programs can give complex behavior. WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram’s computational universe and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story–and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition. Potential applications for this new kind of music range from scoring an entire film to creating personalized ringtones for cell phones.” media.wolfram.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Rule Type: 31 (r=2) Rule: 3122989581 Seed: 9183 my brain trained to bang with amazing aim i make the games and create the maze innovate the change that abate the pains / race the flames taste the shame take the blame I break the frame while i rearrange DNA in the strain straighten the grain I remain sane while so many attain fame just waste away that’s why I plot and plan like Aubrey de Grey / lames don’t know they only safe for today major player don’t wanna wait or stay in his lane / I wanna kill him resurrect him put my blood in his veins / obtain the dame willing escape the chains quick / stick it to the villain hating I’m fed up with the bullshit / space is the place ma come fuck with an ace I seen shorty one

(Movie G) This movie shows stick balancing with and without leg shaking.

Saturday, July 31st, 2010


This movie illustrates stick balancing. It part of an article entitled “The Dynamics of Toys” by G. Bard Ermentrout, Department of Mathematics and University Professor of Computational Biology, Pittsburgh University and John G. Milton, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Department of Biology, The Claremont Colleges in the January, 2009 issue of DSWeb Magazine (www.dynamicalsystems.org ).

Q&A VIDEO AUSTRALIA – Dr. Shaykh Ali Al-Tamimi Ali Al-Timimi

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010


From a lecture called “Defenders of the Faith.” – All 11 parts should be available on YouTube somewhere. Please do dua for him and his family or write a letter to him in prison. Dr. Ali al-Timimi 48054-083 Alexandria Detention Center 2001 Mill Road Alexandria, Virginia 22314 www.cageprisoners.com Ali Al Timimi (also known as Shaykh Ali Al-Timimi; born December 14, 1963, in Washington, DC) is an American of Iraqi heritage who was born and raised in Washington DC. On December 1, 2004, he successfully defended his dissertation on “Chaos and Complexity in Cancer” and was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Computational Biology. He also holds undergraduate degrees in both Biology and Computer Science. In addition to his scientific background, Ali Al-Timimi possesses a background in Islamic studies. In 1987, he was the recipient of a scholarship to study theology at the Islamic University of Medina, Saudi Arabia. While living in Medina, he also furthered his studies with the great scholars of the Prophet’s mosque. Due to his passion for learning, he quickly progressed in his studies and is recognized as one of the few Muslim experts in the US in the field of Islamic Theology and Philosophy. He has taught both Theology and Quranic studies at the University level. For over 15 years Ali Al-Timimi has delivered hundreds of Islamic workshops and lectures locally and around the world. www.freeali.org

Biology 1B – Lecture 1: Introduction / Fungi

Sunday, July 25th, 2010


General Biology

Copper – Dueling Clusters (HD)

Monday, July 19th, 2010


A quick video demonstrating the power of virtual clusters. Within minutes, Copper allows us to the same physical resources to simultaneously render frames of an animation and run a computational biology job.

Biology 1B – Lecture 24: Speciation processes (cont)

Monday, July 19th, 2010


General Biology

Integrative Biology 131 – Lecture 18: Lymphatic System

Friday, July 16th, 2010


Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination. The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals. The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways. The various…

The Origin Of Life: Chemistry + Biology = Abiogenesis

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010


Complexity (Part 4): The Origin Of Life: Chemistry + Biology = Abiogenesis — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — CHEMISTRY Stars like our own Sun form from gas clouds that have about every kind of element there is as well as some pretty complicated molecules. Stuff leftover after the sun forms usually turns into a system of planets. Some of these planets have solid surfaces, perhaps liquid seas and a gaseous atmosphere; a rich environment for atoms and molecules to come together in complex chemical reactions. Carbon atoms in particular, link together to form complex organic molecules and amino acids. Chemical catalysts speed reactions along. The products of one chemical reaction become the raw material for new reactions. At some level of complexity a catalyst became an enzyme, an amino acid chain became a protein, a loop of chemical reactions became a metabolism, and chemistry became … biology. BIOLOGY On our own planet, and perhaps countless others – life arose. The DNA molecule, which is the basis of all organic life on Earth, is more intricate by far than any spiral galaxy – because the structure of DNA contains something new – something that was missing from inanimate matter before the origin of life – it contains information. The DNA molecule encodes not only the information necessary to make copies of itself, but the information necessary to construct an entire organism. The blueprints for an ant or a dolphin

SCI Institute – Multidisciplinary Research – University of Utah

Saturday, July 10th, 2010


Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah. Visualization, scientific computing, and image analysis. Biomedical Computing. Fire and Explosion Simulation, Computational Biology.

Human Biology

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010


anorexia

RENCI People Interview with Ruzena Bajcsy

Sunday, July 4th, 2010


Ruzena Bajcsy is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and director emeritus of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Science (CITRIS). Her research interests include artificial intelligence, biosystems and computational biology, intelligent systems and robotics, graphics and human-computer interaction, computer vision, and security. From November 2001 to 2004, she served as director of CITRIS, an initiative that brings several UC campuses together with private industry to develop ways to use information technology to affect people’s daily lives. Prior to joining Berkeley, Bajcsy headed the Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate at the National Science Foundation, where she managed a $500 million annual budget. She is a former faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, where she founded and directed the university’s General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory and chaired the computer and information science department. Bajcsy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine as well as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In 2002, Discover Magazine named her one of the 50 most important women in science. Bajcsy has served on numerous advisory boards

Integrative Biology 131 – Lecture 19: Respiratory System

Thursday, July 1st, 2010


Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination. The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals. The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways. The various…

Research Scientist – ROMAIN THIBAUX

Monday, June 28th, 2010


Google Tech Talks June, 11 2008 Title: “Levy Processes and Applications to Machine Learning” ABSTRACT: Nonparametric Bayesian methods are a generalization of probabilistic models where the prior distribution can be a stochastic process, a distribution over a possibly uncountably infinite number of random variables. The great flexibility of these methods has led to applications in natural language processing, machine vision, computational biology and other fields. I will introduce Levy processes, which generalize several of these methods. Levy processes are random measures that give independent mass to independent increments. As an example I will show how they can be used to model various types of data such as binary vectors or vectors of counts, with applications to text and images. These techniques are related to the better known Dirichlet process. Speaker: Research Scientist – ROMAIN THIBAUX

Lec 27 | MIT 7.014 Introductory Biology, Spring 2005

Friday, June 25th, 2010


Recombinant DNA III (cont.) Immunology I (Prof. Graham Walker) View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu More courses at ocw.mit.edu