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COMPUTATIONAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or involving computation or computers
Example:
computational linguistics
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
computation (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)
computer (a machine for performing calculations automatically)
Derivation:
computation (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)
computation (problem solving that involves numbers or quantities)
Context examples:
A quantum computer would be able to solve previously unsolvable computational problems by taking advantage of the strange behaviour of particles at the subatomic scale, and quantum phenomena such as entanglement and superposition.
(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)
Computational methods allowed the researchers to detect patterns between the genes expressed in the retina and a pool of more than 9 million previously identified genetic variants.
(New study about genes linked to age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)
The work has moved microbiology and genetics research from the wet lab to the data center — creating a computational approach to studying organism interactions and evolution called metagenomics.
(Microbes are at work in our bodies, and researchers have figured out what they're up to, National Science Foundation)
The results demonstrate that computational chemistry and supercomputing technology can be used to model membrane proteins more accurately in an environment that mimics their physiological environment.
(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)
Biological study that combines traditional techniques with computer analysis; an intersection of computational biology and biomedical informatics.
(Biomedical Computing, NCI Thesaurus)
An abstract class to capture the concept of an event (either in the laboratory or a computational analysis).
(Bio Event, NCI Thesaurus)
An abstract class which represents both physical and computational groupings of arrays and biomaterials.
(Bioassay Class, NCI Thesaurus)
Now, a novel computational method shows that a viral protein found in EBV-infected human cells may activate genes associated with increased risk for autoimmunity.
(Epstein-Barr virus protein can “switch on” risk genes for autoimmune diseases, National Institutes of Health)
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and MIT approached the problem by using computational simulations of the mechanics of red blood cells as they pass through the spleen.
(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
(National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCI Thesaurus)
