Today's IMO seminar is from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory collaboratiors Dan Faissol & Breden Kyle: Deep reinforcement learning and simulation as a path toward precision medicine. They have been working on Cancer Crusade game to develop optimal treatment strategies!

If you'd like to explore more about #cancer evolution after reading my WIRED feature (wired.com/story/cancer-t…) you should download the game developed by Sandy Anderson's team -- by playing the game you will actually help researchers improve therapy: cancercrusadegame.com

#NCIITCR is real 💎 of the National Cancer Institute. Check them out at #AACR19 to see how cancer informatics is helping cancer science and patient care.

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If you’ve ever felt the pain of drawing phospholipid bilayers in PPT😫 or spent hours drawing rickety cells/DNA, this is for you🙏 Today we launched our most powerful tool yet: bio-BRUSHES!🖌️ Magically ‘paint’ a membrane or DNA in seconds!🧙🏽‍♂️😍🧬 Live now @ biorender.com

Thank you for this, Phil! Philip E. Bourne

Todays IMO research in progress is from #AndersonLab member Rafael Bravo presenting preliminary results on our crowd sourced game Cancer Crusade. Big shout out to @NCICancerBio for funding this through the UH2 mechanism!

We're excited to share this year's amazing BioVis at ISMB program: biovis.net/2020/program_i… We have 2 absolutely fantastic keynote speakers (Hendrik S (find me in blueksy) and Marinka Zitnik), 16 talks, and 4 posters. Please join us virtually on July 15th iscb.org/ismb2020-regis… #ismb2020

Seeking more educators! Animation lab postdoc Shraddha Nayak has been working on visualizations of metabolic flux. If you're teaching these concepts, we'd love your your help developing these animations and educational modules (which will be freely shared online).

Who likes a good #infographic? Check out @NIHSBIR's new interactive tool showcasing #SBIR #STTR success stories. Who's missing?! #ICorps #ICorpsNIH sbir.nih.gov/stories/

Looking forward to this!! USC Games✌

Application deadline extended through Tuesday, June 8th!

Deadline extended to Sept 8th! Applicants with expertise in data visualization, UX, game design, and immersive media are encouraged to apply to this mentored, week-long collaborative team building workshop, taking place virtually Nov 1-5.

We are looking for talented scientists, from technicians to postdocs. Please RT our postdoc ad: go.nature.com/2UO73SP

NAN (NaNs Are Numbers) are a new esoteric data type in python where _everything_ is a NaN. 🧵👇 github.com/thoppe/NansAre…

Deep nightmares. Just in time for 🎃 This is too cool to keep to myself. Let me show you how I did it 🧵

Out today!

Our new paper "Dark citations to Federal resources and their contribution to the public health literature", Keralis et. al., looks at all the URLs in PubMed references that point to US Federal government websites. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

What could video games possibly have to do with the future of #CancerResearch and #CancerCare? In reality, there’s much more of a connection than you might think... spr.ly/6017VCr7B

Calling all scientists and engineers with expertise in #ArtificialIntelligence: applications for the AAAS Rapid Response AI Cohort are NOW OPEN! Apply by May 1 to start this Sept 1 and contribute your AI-relevant expertise to Congress. Learn more here: aaas.org/ai-stpf-cohort