NEWS

The Bio Finance Guild 2004 , a biotechnology training program for investors sponsored by Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., was held at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences on August 27-28, 2004.

The E-Cell Tutorial, a two week program for cell modeling using E-Cell3, was held at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences on April 12-23.

The tutorial was composed of two sessions. The first session offered a basic introduction to modeling and simulation using the E-Cell3 software, and the second session was reserved for individual modeling projects. All materials used in the tutorial are available from the E-Cell Tutorial web page.

Institute for Advanced Biosciences researcher Dr. Kouichi Takahashi has published an article on the development and implementation of "a multi-algorithm, multi-timescale method for cell simulation" in the March 1st issue of Bioinformatics.

The E-Cell simulation environment can be freely downloaded from the E-Cell Project website.

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Research results on the modeling and simulation of brain hippocampal signal transduction by Institute for Advanced Biosciences project research associate Shinichi Kikuchi was published in Neural Networks (vol. 16, Issue 9 , November 2003, pp 1389-1398) in the article "Kinetic simulation of signal transduction system in hippocampal long-term potentiation with dynamic modeling of protein phosphatase 2A".

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