Designed especially for neurobiologists, FluoRender is an interactive tool for multi-channel fluorescence microscopy data visualization and analysis.
Deep brain stimulation
BrainStimulator is a set of networks that are used in SCIRun to perform simulations of brain stimulation such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and magnetic transcranial stimulation (TMS).
Developing software tools for science has always been a central vision of the SCI Institute.

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orly groupOrly Alter has been awarded a five-year, three million-dollar National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant for the project "Multi-Tensor Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Prognostics." Co-investigators on her team include pathology professors Cheryl A. Palmer and Carl T. Wittwer, associate professor Elke A. Jarboe, and clinical assistant professor Reha M. Toydemir, and neurosurgery professor Randy L. Jensen.

Alter, a bioengineering associate professor and a faculty member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, pioneered the matrix and tensor modeling of large-scale molecular biological data, which have been demonstrated to correctly predict previously unknown cellular mechanisms.

For more see the project website at https://physics.cancer.gov/network/UniversityofUtah.aspx.

Interactive software tool lets brain researchers explore large-scale, high-res imaging to better understand connections in the brain

October 26, 2015

It's tough to unravel the mysteries of the brain when your computer is frozen.

To aid frustrated brain researchers, a multidisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Utah has created a faster method for generating and exploring high-resolution, 3-D images of the brain.

Oct. 22, 2015

The animal brain is so complex, it would take a supercomputer and vast amounts of data to create a detailed 3-D model of the billions of neurons that power it.

But computer scientists and a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Utah have developed software that maps out a monkey's brain and more easily creates a 3-D model, providing a more complete picture of how the brain is wired. Their process was announced this week at Neuroscience 2015, the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago.

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Gigabit application prototypes to help cities and communities serve citizens better

NSF awards nearly $12 million to expand innovation ecosystem for next-generation Internet applications

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NSF announced nearly $12 million awards that build on the successful efforts of US Ignite.
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September 14, 2015

The United States lags behind most developed countries in terms of high-speed Internet availability. Though there are signs this is changing, insufficient investment in gigabit networks--those capable of 1,000 megabits per second, roughly 30 times faster than the networks commonly available today--threatens to limit U.S. leadership in Internet applications and services.

IMAGEVIS3DThe U's Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing just landed a $6.1 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health. The center produces open-source software for image-based modeling, simulation and visualization of biomedical data. Tens of thousands of scientists have downloaded the center's software tools and data sets, and more than 200 papers published by scientists outside the center reference its software or computing infrastructure.

The NIH grant has a five year term. The principle investigators are bioengineering professor Rob MacLeod, computer science professor Ross Whitaker, and computer science professor Christopher Johnson, who directs the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.

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August 27, 2015 - Scott Gibson, Communications Specialist, University of Tennessee

More elegant techniques combined with highly interdisciplinary, multi-scale collaboration are essential for dealing with massive amounts of information, plenary speaker says at the XSEDE15 conference.

A curse of dealing with mounds of data so massive that they require special tools, said computer scientist Valerio Pascucci, is if you look for something, you will probably find it, thus injecting bias into the analysis.
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XSEDE15 pascucci sgIn his plenary talk titled "Extreme Data Management Analysis and Visualization: Exploring Large Data for Science Discovery" on July 28 during the XSEDE15 conference in St. Louis, Dr. Pascucci said that getting clean, guaranteed, unbiased results in data analyses requires highly interdisciplinary, multi-scale collaboration and techniques that unify the math and computer science behind the applications used in physics, biology, and medicine.

btrportalThe NIH Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) is pleased to release the National Institutes of Health Biomedical Technology Resource Portal (NIH BTRPortal). The NIH BTRPortal maintains profiles for all National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) P41 Centers and provides central access to resources developed at these Centers. Recent participation has grown this repository to over 200 software packages and access to over 60 datasets/databases.

As a result of our funding for this project, the CIBC has developed a custom website in order to manage different user rolls, search scenarios, and the editing and addition of new Centers and their resources. Resources are tagged with the appropriate filters and keywords based on an extensive search through resource descriptions (OS, acceptable data formats, data size, field of research, etc.). It is our hope that participating Centers will create additional keywords to not only aid in finding resources, but also cross-educate other Centers to the nature of their research. It is our further hope that this Portal will enhance collaboration between Centers and leverage the great work that has already been done.

www.btrportal.org
scirun5The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute is excited to announce the first official alpha release of SCIRun 5.0!

New features include a new user interface based on the cross-platform Qt toolkit, updated graphics and visualization system, improved algorithm stability, expanded test coverage, a leaner and modernized codebase, better math library support through Eigen, and streamlined support for new modules and toolkit development. A Python scripting engine and Matlab interface will be available in our beta release.

seg3d 2 2We are pleased to announce Seg3D version 2.2.0 and Seg3D's new GitHub repository (https://github.com/SCIInstitute/Seg3D).

The new binary installers and sources can be downloaded from:

http://www.sci.utah.edu/download/seg3d

For users building from source, please review the updated build instructions at www.seg3d.org as our CMake-based build has changed considerably since 2.1.5. This release contains bug fixes, upgraded third party libraries and tool improvements.

As we want to keep improving our software, questions, suggestions and bug reports are always welcome. Please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

alex lexDr. Alexander Lex, School of Computing

Dr. Lex received his Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD degrees from the Graz University of Technology. For the past three years he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In 2011 he completed a research internship at the Computational Genomics Lab at the Harvard Medical School.

He develops interactive data analysis methods for experts and scientists. His primary research interest is interactive data visualization and analysis, especially applied to molecular biology and pharmacology. His research is driven by the observation that there are many data analysis challenges that require human reasoning and cannot be solved automatically. He is also interested in Human Computer Interaction and Bioinformatics.

kaust workshop

A Hands-on Tutorial in Data Generation, Processing, and Delivery for High Performance Computing and High Resolution Imaging
Dates: June 28-29 From 8:30am to 12noon
Location: KAUST Library Computer Classroom
Registration: http://tiny.cc/KAUST_BDM15_registration