{"id":5,"date":"2013-06-18T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/home\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:45:39","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the BMERC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Objectives<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3>Developing Computational Methods<\/h3>\n<p>To develop and apply computational methods for the analysis and design of structures, functions, interactions, regulation and evolution of biological macromolecules; and to use such understanding\u00a0to contribute to the advancement of modern biological, engineering and medical sciences. In\u00a0meeting these objectives, the BMERC is continually developing new computer-assisted analytical \u00a0approaches that address basic problems in molecular biology and biomedical engineering.<\/p>\n<h3>Enabling Collaborative Research<\/h3>\n<p>To connect basic sciences with engineering and medical applications. On the basic science side, BMERC has active collaborations with faculty from the Department of Chemistry (Profs. Adrian Whitty,\u00a0Karen Allen, John Porco), the Department of Physiology and Biophysics (Prof. Assen Marintchev), the Department of Biology (Prof. Andrew Emili), and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Profs. Mark Kon and Julio Castrillon). Within engineering,\u00a0BMERC collaborates with members of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). \u00a0In particular, we closely collaborate with Profs. Yannis Paschalidis (ECE Department) and Pirooz Vakili\u00a0(Mechanical Engineering).<\/p>\n<h3>Supporting the Scientific Community<\/h3>\n<p>To provide collaborative research support and training to the Boston University and wider research\u00a0communities, with focus on graduate students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives Developing Computational Methods To develop and apply computational methods for the analysis and design of structures, functions, interactions, regulation and evolution of biological macromolecules; and to use such understanding\u00a0to contribute to the advancement of modern biological, engineering and medical sciences. In\u00a0meeting these objectives, the BMERC is continually developing new computer-assisted analytical \u00a0approaches that address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13775,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}