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BI-LAVA: Biocuration with Hierarchical Image Labeling through Active Learning and Visual Analytics
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco September 22, 2024 In the biomedical domain, taxonomies organize the acquisition modalities of scientific images in hierarchical structures. Such taxonomies leverage… Read more |
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Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s 50th Anniversary Retrospective: Look to the Future, Build on the Past
Andrew Johnson, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Daria Tsoupikova, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jason Leigh, Jonas Talandis, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Michael E. Papka, Thomas A. DeFanti August 1, 2024 September 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). EVL’s… Read more |
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The Effects of Virtual Reality Environments on Physiological Stress: A Platform Comparison Between Room-Scale Displays and Desktop Computers (MS Thesis Project)
Farah Kamleh April 26, 2024 Studies have proven the effectiveness of mindfulness and forest-immersion therapy as an option for stress reduction. However, what happens when an… Read more |
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Kiviat Defense: An Empirical Evaluation of Visual Encoding Effectiveness in Multivariate Data Similarity Detection
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco, Mirko Mantovani January 22, 2024 - January 25, 2024 Similarity detection seeks to identify similar, but distinct items over multivariate datasets. Often, similarity cannot be defined computationally… Read more |
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SAGE3 for Interactive Collaborative Visualization, Analysis, and Storytelling
Luc Renambot November 5, 2023 - November 8, 2023 SAGE3, the newest and most advanced generation of the Smart Amplified Group Environment, is an open-source software designed to facilitate… Read more |
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Using Personal Situated Analytics (PSA) to Interpret Recorded Meetings
Andrew Johnson, Ashwini Naik October 29, 2023 - November 1, 2023 Applications in immersive environments have gained popularity for training, learning, and recreational tasks. Due to the increasing availability of… Read more |
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PSA: A Cross-Platform Framework for Situated Analytics in MR and VR
Andrew Johnson, Ashwini Naik October 16, 2023 - October 20, 2023 Using immersive environments for training, education, and recreation is becoming increasingly popular among individuals. In recent years these… Read more |
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The Effects of Virtual Reality Environments on Physiological Stress: A Platform Comparison Between Room-Scale Displays and Desktop Computers (poster)
Farah Kamleh April 28, 2023 Background: Existing studies have reported that forest therapy utilizing sensory stimuli increases the activity of the parasympathetic nervous system… Read more |
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The Effects of Virtual Reality Environments on Physiological Stress: A Platform Comparison Between Room-Scale Displays and Desktop Computers
Farah Kamleh April 28, 2023 In the past, existing studies have proven the effectiveness of forest therapy as an option for stress reduction, but what happens when an individual… Read more |
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The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytics, Policy, and Tools
Fabio Miranda October 23, 2022 - October 26, 2022 Inaccessible urban infrastructure creates and reinforces systemic exclusion of people with disabilities and impacts public health, physical activity… Read more |
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Head and Neck Cancer Predictive Risk Estimator to Determine Control and Therapeutic Outcomes of Radiotherapy (HNCPREDICTOR)
G. Elisabeta Marai, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu October 21, 2022 Background. Personalized radiotherapy can improve treatment outcomes of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients, where currently a… Read more |
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Hummingbird: A Collaborative Live Theater and Virtual Reality Adventure
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Sai Priya Jyothula August 8, 2022 - August 11, 2022 Hummingbird: is a modern, innovative performance merging live theater and interactive virtual reality by bringing a group of active participants into… Read more |
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Moving from Composable to Programmable
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Zhongyi Chen June 3, 2022 In today’s Big Data era, data scientists require modern workflows to quickly analyze large-scale datasets using complex codes to maintain the… Read more |
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Composable Infrastructures for an Academic Research Environment: Lessons Learned
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Zhongyi Chen June 3, 2022 Composable infrastructure holds the promise of accelerating the pace of academic research and discovery by enabling researchers to tailor the… Read more |
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Exploiting appearance transfer and multi-scale context for efficient person image generation
Wei Tang April 1, 2022 Pose guided person image generation means to generate a photo-realistic person image conditioned on an input person image and a desired pose. This… Read more |
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THALIS: Human-Machine Analysis of Longitudinal Symptoms in Cancer Therapy
Andrew Wentzel, Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu January 1, 2022 Although cancer patients survive years after oncologic therapy, they are plagued with long-lasting or permanent residual symptoms, whose severity… Read more |
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Supporting Collaborative Exploratory Visual Data Analysis in Multi-device Environments
Abeer Alsaiari November 1, 2021 There is a steadily growing interest in leveraging ecosystems of digital devices that go beyond a single desktop for collaborative visual data… Read more |
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Interaction with Multiple Data Visualizations Through Natural Language Commands
Jillian Aurisano November 1, 2021 Data exploration stands to benefit from environments that permit users to examine and juxtapose many views of data, particularly views that present… Read more |
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UrbanRama: Navigating Cities in Virtual Reality
Fabio Miranda July 26, 2021 Exploring large virtual environments, such as cities, is a central task in several domains, such as gaming and urban planning. VR systems can greatly… Read more |
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Hybrid Collaborative Virtual Environments
Krishna Bharadwaj July 23, 2021 Collaborative Virtual Environments have been increasingly used in supporting group work. Several collaborative systems have come up in recent years… Read more |
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A Hybrid Collaborative Virtual Environment with Heterogeneous Representations for Architectural Planning
Andrew Johnson, Krishna Bharadwaj October 16, 2020 - October 17, 2020 We developed a collaborative virtual environment for architectural planning that facilitates groups of people to work together using three different… Read more |
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VisSnippets: A Web-Based System for Impromptu Collaborative Data Exploration on Large Displays
Andrew Burks, Andrew Johnson, Luc Renambot July 26, 2020 - July 30, 2020 The VisSnippets system is designed to facilitate effective collaborative data exploration. VisSnippets leverages SAGE2 middleware that enables users… Read more |
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Many At Once: Capturing Intentions to Create And Use Many Views At Once In Large Display Environments
Abeer Alsaiari, Abhinav Kumar, Andrew Johnson, Jillian Aurisano May 25, 2020 - May 29, 2020 This paper describes results from an observational, exploratory study of visual data exploration in a large, multi-view, flexible canvas environment… Read more |
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Evaluating Strategies of Exploratory Visual Data Analysis in Multi Device Environments
Abeer Alsaiari, Andrew Johnson, Jillian Aurisano May 25, 2020 - May 29, 2020 Supporting exploratory visual data analysis is essential when multiple analysts collaborate using multiple devices. Yet, we still have no full… Read more |
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Intelligent Assistant for Exploring Data Visualizations
Abhinav Kumar, Andrew Johnson, Jillian Aurisano May 17, 2020 - May 20, 2020 Visualization, while an effective tool for identifying patterns and insights, requires expert knowledge due to challenges faced when translating user… Read more |
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Augmenting Small Data to Classify Contextualized Dialogue Acts for Exploratory Visualization
Abhinav Kumar, Andrew Johnson, Jillian Aurisano May 11, 2020 - May 16, 2020 Our goal is to develop an intelligent assistant to support users explore data via visualizations. We have collected a new corpus of conversations… Read more |
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Using Augmented Reality to Assist Seated Office Workers’ Data Entry Tasks
Andrew Johnson March 22, 2020 - March 26, 2020 The data entry task is one of the common office tasks performed in the seated position that can be assisted by augmented reality technology. The… Read more |
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SAGE2 Scalable Amplified Group Environment (poster 2020)
Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown February 13, 2020 - February 14, 2020 SAGE2 is a user-centered platform for small groups or large distributed teams to access digital media datasets from various sources and juxtapose… Read more |
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Towards Understanding Collaborative Visual Data Analysis in Multi-Device Environments
Abeer Alsaiari, Andrew Johnson October 20, 2019 - October 25, 2019 There is a steadily growing interest in leveraging ecosystems of digital devices that go beyond a single desktop for visual data analysis and… Read more |
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Extending Virtual Reality Display Wall Environments Using Augmented Reality
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto October 19, 2019 - October 20, 2019 Two major form factors for virtual reality are head-mounted displays and large display environments such as CAVE™ and the LCD-based successor… Read more |
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PolyVis: Cross-Device Framework for Collaborative Visual Data Analysis
Abeer Alsaiari, Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto October 6, 2019 - October 9, 2019 Multi-device environments present new opportunities for collaborative visual data analysis and sense-making by utilizing each device’s… Read more |
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Usage Patterns of Wideband Display Environments In e-Science Research, Development and Training
Andrew Burks, Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Krishna Bharadwaj, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown September 24, 2019 - September 27, 2019 SAGE (the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) and its successor SAGE2 (the Scalable Amplified Group Environment) are operating systems for… Read more |
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Cohort-Based Spatial Similarity Can Predict Radiotherapy Dose Distribution
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Peter Hanula, Timothy Luciani September 15, 2019 - September 18, 2019 In head and neck (HN) cancer treatment, radiotherapy (RT) plans assigned to a given patient depend in large measure on the tumor location with… Read more |
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Correlating Toxicity Outcomes with Spatial Patterns of Lymph Node Metastasis for Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani September 15, 2019 - September 18, 2019 Imaging is an integral tool in radiation oncology, starting from initial diagnosis to follow-up post-therapy. In head and neck cancer treatment… Read more |
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Cohort-based T-SSIM Visual Computing for Radiation Therapy Prediction and Exploration
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Peter Hanula, Timothy Luciani August 22, 2019 We describe a visual computing approach to radiation therapy (RT) planning, based on spatial similarity within a patient cohort. In radiotherapy for… Read more |
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User perspective and higher cognitive task-loads influence movement and performance in immersive training environments
Andrea Rottigni, G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco, Marco Cavallo August 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019 Background: In virtual reality (VR) applications such as games, virtual training, and interactive neurorehabilitation, one can employ either the… Read more |
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Virtual Slots Game for Rehabilitation Exercises
Ashwini Naik, Robert V. Kenyon, Steve Jones June 18, 2019 - June 21, 2019 Research has shown that compliance to interactive training in tasks such as movement therapy following injuries, stroke and major surgeries is… Read more |
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Knowledge Places: Embedding Knowledge in the Space of the Classroom
Anthony Perritano, Tom Moher June 12, 2019 - June 15, 2019 This research investigates a novel approach to supporting classroom learning communities through the use of proxemic interaction and ambient… Read more |
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Immersive Analytics Lessons from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory: a 25 Year Perspective
Andrew Johnson, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jason Leigh May 1, 2019 - June 30, 2019 This article provides a 25 year-long perspective on Immersive Analytics through the lens of first-in-kind technological advancements introduced at… Read more |
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Design and Evaluation of Trust - Eliciting Cues in Drug - Drug Interaction Alerts
Debaleena Chattopadhyay December 18, 2018 Drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts safeguard patient safety during medication prescribing, but are often ignored by physicians. Despite attempts to… Read more |
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Toward a Bayesian Approach for Self- Tracking Personal Pollution Exposures
Debaleena Chattopadhyay October 8, 2018 - October 12, 2018 Pollution exposure assessment at the population level is an established enterprise for environmental scientists and public health officials - but… Read more |
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myCityMeter: Helping Older Adults Manage the Environmental Risk Factors for Cognitive Impairment
Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Nina Sakhnini October 8, 2018 - October 12, 2018 Recent epidemiological studies suggest that age-related cognitive decline - particularly, the stages between normal cognitive changes in aging and… Read more |
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Activity-Centered Domain Characterization for Problem-Driven Scientific Visualization
G. Elisabeta Marai January 1, 2018 Although visualization design models exist in the literature in the form of higher-level methodological frameworks, these models do not present a… Read more |
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Beyond presentation: Shared slideware control as a resource for collocated collaboration
Debaleena Chattopadhyay November 4, 2017 Traditional models of slideware assume one presenter controls attention through slide navigation and pointing while a passive audience views the… Read more |
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Toward meaningful care plan clinical decision support: Feasibility and effects of a simulated pilot study
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson September 1, 2017 - October 1, 2017 Background - Clinical decision support (CDS) tools - with easily understood and actionable information, at the point of care - are needed to help… Read more |
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Acceptability of clinical decision support prototypes for a nursing electronic health record to facilitate palliative care outcomes.
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson September 1, 2017 To determine acceptability, usefulness, and ease of use for four nursing clinical decision support interface prototypes. In a simulated hospital… Read more |
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Outcomes for End-of-Life Patients with Anticipatory Grieving: Insights from Practice with Standardized Nursing Terminologies within an Interoperable Internet-based Electronic Health Record
Andrew Johnson June 1, 2017 Although grief is often associated with death, receiving a diagnosis of a terminal disease for oneself or a loved one also unleashes an onslaught of… Read more |
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Categorization-based stranger avoidance does not explain the uncanny valley effect (2016)
Debaleena Chattopadhyay January 18, 2017 The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human risks eliciting cold, eerie feelings in viewers. Categorization-based… Read more |
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Familiar faces rendered strange: Why inconsistent realism drives characters into the uncanny valley
Debaleena Chattopadhyay September 9, 2016 Computer-modeled characters resembling real people sometimes elicit cold, eerie feelings. This effect, called the uncanny valley, has been attributed… Read more |
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Toward a More Robust and Efficient Usability Testing Method of Clinical Decision Support for Nurses Derived from Nursing Electronic Health Record Data
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson June 1, 2016 PURPOSE To develop methods for rapid and simultaneous design, testing, and management of multiple clinical decision support (CDS) features to aid… Read more |
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Modeling and evaluating user behavior in exploratory visual analysis.
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh March 1, 2016 Empirical evaluation methods for visualizations have traditionally focused on assessing the outcome of the visual analytic process as opposed to… Read more |
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SAGE2: a Collaboration Portal for Scalable Resolution Displays
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Jillian Aurisano, Krishna Bharadwaj, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas Marrinan, Victor Mateevitsi January 1, 2016 In this paper, we present SAGE2, a software framework that enables local and remote collaboration on Scalable Resolution Display Environments (SRDE)… Read more |
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Use of Simulation to Study Nurses’ Acceptance and Nonacceptance of Clinical Decision Support Suggestions
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson October 1, 2015 Our long-term goal is to ensure nurse clinical decision support (CDS) works as intended before full deployment in clinical practice. As part of a… Read more |
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Emotionally Augmented Storytelling Agent - The Effects of Dimensional Emotion Modeling for Agent Behavior Control
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Steve Jones August 26, 2015 - August 28, 2015 The study presented in this paper focuses on a dimensional theory to augment agent nonverbal behavior including emotional facial expression and head… Read more |
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Nurses’ Numeracy and Graphical Literacy: Informing Studies of Clinical Decision Support Interfaces
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson August 1, 2015 We present findings of a comparative study of numeracy and graph literacy in a representative group of 60 practicing nurses. The paper focuses on a… Read more |
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PICU Nurses’ Pain Assessments And Intervention Choices for Virtual Human And Written Vignettes
Andrew Johnson July 1, 2015 - August 1, 2015 The purpose of this concurrent mixed-methods study was to 1) examine the factors pediatric intensive care unit nurses consider when assessing and… Read more |
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Effects of Display Size and Resolution on User Behavior and Insight Acquisition in Visual Exploration
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda April 18, 2015 - April 23, 2015 Large high-resolution displays are becoming increasingly common in research settings, providing data scientists with visual interfaces for the… Read more |
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Multiuser-Centered Resource Scheduling for Collaborative Display Wall Environments
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam April 1, 2015 The popularity of large-scale, high-resolution display walls, as visualization endpoints in eScience infrastructure, is rapidly growing. These… Read more |
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Development and Validation of a Virtual Human Vignette to Compare Nurses Assessment and Intervention Choices for Pain in Critically Ill Children
Andrew Johnson, Sangyoon Lee February 1, 2015 Introduction: As virtual experiences are increasingly used in health care training and research, it is important that adequate processes are applied… Read more |
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Back to the Future: Embodied Classroom Simulations of Animal Foraging
Anthony Perritano, Brenda Lopez Silva, Tom Moher February 16, 2014 - February 19, 2014 This paper describes the design and pilot enactment of an instructional unit for elementary school students, Hunger Games, which centers on… Read more |
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Data Mining Nursing Care Plans of End of Life Patients: A Case Study to Improve Healthcare Decision Making
Andrew Johnson February 1, 2013 Pain management of end of life patients (EOL) (n=596 episodes) is examined using statistical and data mining processes of the HANDS database of care… Read more |
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Maintaining a consistent big picture: Meaningful Use of a Web-based POC EHR System
Andrew Johnson October 1, 2012 Objective: To test the hypothesis that Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System (HANDS) “big picture summary” can be implemented uniformly… Read more |
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Current State of Pain Care for Hospitalized Patients at End of Life
Andrew Johnson May 1, 2012 We report findings on the current state of pain care in hospitals for end-of-life (EOL) patients using longitudinal data from eight diverse… Read more |
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RuleBender: integrated modeling, simulation and visualization for rule-based intracellular biochemistry
G. Elisabeta Marai October 23, 2011 - October 24, 2011 Background: Rule-based modeling (RBM) is a powerful and increasingly popular approach to modeling cell signaling networks. However, novel visual… Read more |
