The thing that makes our research difficult, the main reason we need big, powerful computers, is a system of a equations known as the “Cardiac Bidomain Equations”. They are a way of representing both the insides and outsides of cells, as well as the membrane in-between, throughout a piece of tissue. A former member of our lab as well as a current one and their colleagues have just come out with a paper entitled, “Solvers for the cardiac bidomain equations”. It discusses why the system is computationally expensive, and tricks for solving it more efficiently, including multigrid methods.
Category Archives: Science
PublicationsList.org
There’s a relatively new service available on the interwebs at PublicationsList.org. It’s basically Cite-U-Like specifically tailored for on person’s papers — your own.
You can import common bibliographic formats such as RefWorks and Bibtex, and for those in the medical field, directly search for and add papers from PubMed. It then appears (though I haven’t investigated thoroughly) that you can add various details including PDFs of or links to your papers. I already sort of do this on my publications page, but this has a slick interface and is independent of my web server.
Unfortunately, they don’t seem to want you to embed the nice resulting list directly in your web page. I’m sure there are ways around this with some clever PHP, but that would probably violate the terms of use. They do give you a nice button though:
Similar to 
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Their business model seems to be based on getting whole organizations to subscribe to their service, but individual accounts are free. Might be worth looking into if you’ve been meaning to put your list of publications online, but have been too lazy or whatever to type them all out somewhere.
ADDENDUM 2007-09-29 @ 17:43 EDT: Apparently they allow embedding if you are a paid member.
Rob explains integration.
Rob explains Calculus
If you’re one of the 60% of the population that never took Calculus, but want to find out what it’s all about, check out my friend Rob’s Calculus Tutorial. His goal is to make it understandable in a short period of time for a layperson, and he would really appreciate your feedback if you can’t quite get it after reading.
Finding Biomedical Citations with HubMed
Have you ever read a paper or two, found a bunch of interesting references, but avoided looking them up because it would be so arduous?
Procrastinate no more — you can use HubMed‘s Citation Finder! Just copy your references directly from the source paper in a PDF reader, and paste them into the big text box. HubMed will then find the citations, allowing you to correct those that it couldn’t find.
Ingenious.