Although the role and management of interdisciplinary research in knowledge development
has received plenty of attention in recent years ambiguity remains, often hindering …

Cancer is a complex disease in which a variety of factors interact over a wide range of
spatial and temporal scales with huge datasets relating to the different scales available …

Investigating the mechanisms underlying the genesis and conduction of electrical excitation
in the atria at physiological and pathological states is of great importance. To provide …

This paper discusses the interrelationship between e-Science and CSCW in terms of key
substantive, methodological and conceptual innovations made in both fields. In so doing, we …

This study was undertaken in response to an initiative of JISC, the UK's Joint Information
Systems Committee. JISC has taken an active role in supporting VRE development in the …

Biomedical science and its allied disciplines are entering a new era in which computational
methods and technologies are poised to play a prevalent role in supporting collaborative …

This paper contributes to the debate on the dynamics of the development of practices and
their relation to the emergence of collaborative communities of practitioners. Our research is …

The mouse is the leading mammalian model organism for basic genetic research and for
studying human diseases. Coordinated international projects are currently in progress to …

In recent years the organisation and practice of collaboration in the life sciences has
undergone radical transformations, owing to the advent of big science enterprises, newly …

Computational modelling of biological processes and systems has witnessed a remarkable
development in recent years. The search-term (modelling OR modeling) yields over 58 000 …