"Speed Boat" is a quick and easy activity to use as part of an interactive workshop. It helps your participants identify what improvements need to be made to a project, tool or process. It also reveals obstacles to reaching the desired goal. In this graphic, the boat represents the key issue to be addressed and the anchors are the challenges. The 'wind' arrows flanking the boat represent positive factors that move the project forward. Interactive games, such as those described in Pavelin et al., encourage creative thinking around a shared set of challenges, and are useful for stimulating problem-solving ideas in computational biology.
Image Credit: Jennifer A. Cham and the EMBL-EBI Industry Programme Agri-Food Workshop participants. Adapted from an activity described in Gamestorming by Gray et al.
Editorial
Ten Simple Rules for Running Interactive Workshops
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Workshops: A Great Way to Enhance and Supplement a Degree
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Perspectives
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Navigating the Multilayered Organization of Eukaryotic Signaling: A New Trend in Data Integration
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Combining Experiments and Simulations Using the Maximum Entropy Principle
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Research Articles
VarWalker: Personalized Mutation Network Analysis of Putative Cancer Genes from Next-Generation Sequencing Data
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Compact Modeling of Allosteric Multisite Proteins: Application to a Cell Size Checkpoint
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The Free Energy Profile of Tubulin Straight-Bent Conformational Changes, with Implications for Microtubule Assembly and Drug Discovery
PLOS Computational Biology: published February 6, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003464
Comparative Genome-Scale Reconstruction of Gapless Metabolic Networks for Present and Ancestral Species
PLOS Computational Biology: published February 6, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003465
Overexpression of Heat Shock Protein 72 Attenuates NF-κB Activation Using a Combination of Regulatory Mechanisms in Microglia
PLOS Computational Biology: published February 6, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003471
Modelling Individual Differences in the Form of Pavlovian Conditioned Approach Responses: A Dual Learning Systems Approach with Factored Representations
PLOS Computational Biology: published February 13, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003466
Mathematical Model of a Telomerase Transcriptional Regulatory Network Developed by Cell-Based Screening: Analysis of Inhibitor Effects and Telomerase Expression Mechanisms
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GAGA: A New Algorithm for Genomic Inference of Geographic Ancestry Reveals Fine Level Population Substructure in Europeans
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Mathematical Modeling of the Phoenix Rising Pathway
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The Structural Pathway of Interleukin 1 (IL-1) Initiated Signaling Reveals Mechanisms of Oncogenic Mutations and SNPs in Inflammation and Cancer
PLOS Computational Biology: published February 13, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003470
Computational Design of the Affinity and Specificity of a Therapeutic T Cell Receptor
PLOS Computational Biology: published February 13, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003478
Optimal Serotype Compositions for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination under Serotype Replacement
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Pathway Thermodynamics Highlights Kinetic Obstacles in Central Metabolism
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A BMP-FGF Morphogen Toggle Switch Drives the Ultrasensitive Expression of Multiple Genes in the Developing Forebrain
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A Virtual Infection Model Quantifies Innate Effector Mechanisms and Candida albicans Immune Escape in Human Blood
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A Network Characteristic That Correlates Environmental and Genetic Robustness
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A Unified Model of Heading and Path Perception in Primate MSTd
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tRNA Signatures Reveal a Polyphyletic Origin of SAR11 Strains among Alphaproteobacteria
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Differential Adhesion between Moving Particles as a Mechanism for the Evolution of Social Groups
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In Silico Single-Molecule Manipulation of DNA with Rigid Body Dynamics
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k-OptForce: Integrating Kinetics with Flux Balance Analysis for Strain Design
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The Sign Rule and Beyond: Boundary Effects, Flexibility, and Noise Correlations in Neural Population Codes
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Escherichia coli Peptidoglycan Structure and Mechanics as Predicted by Atomic-Scale Simulations
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Learning Gene Networks under SNP Perturbations Using eQTL Datasets
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