Category Archives: Modeling & Simulation

Of models and Black Swans

By Deepak Singh | Published: January 11, 2009
Image via WikipediaInteresting discussion on Friendfeed about Black Swans and models (both scientific and financial). Teed off by a post by Ashutosh Jogelekar, this discussion is an interesting one. Let’s start with something Ashutosh writes But let’s face one big truth about models; most of them in fact are not designed to represent “reality”. [...]
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DSLs and scientific programming

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 21, 2008
I hope we can talk about this on Coast to Coast Bio tonight. In my exploration of proper programming and Ruby, I’ve seen a lot of discussion around Domain Specific Languages, and to try and understand the role that DSL’s could play in scientific programming. The Wikipedia article on DSL’s starts with the [...]
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A new product for modeling cell signaling

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 19, 2008
Image via WikipediaI am slowly winding down blogging for the year. The goal is to spend the last couple of weeks changing hosts, upgrading blogs, etc. For now, here’s another post Via Bioinform (sub reqd), I found Plectix Biosystems, a company in Massachusetts that just launched its first product, which consists of a web-based [...]
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Getting a drug molecule to fit

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 10, 2008
Image via WikipediaGreat post by Derek Lowe as usual, and about an area of science that I care about deeply. In general, molecular recognition, and specifically, the energetics of drug binding are among the most fascinating subjects I have every come across. Fascinating not just because of the science, but also for now [...]
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Web as platform: Grumbling about prediction servers … again

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 9, 2008
I have complained about this before, so am sure I sound like a very broken record by now. Adam Kraut shared an abstract for SelectPro, a structure-based model selection method which uses an energy function that combiness statisticial, physical and rule-based. Now comes my peeve or should I say peeves. You have a forms [...]
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