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Coordination Chemistry Complexes
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Neal Abrams — SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Transition metals are found everywhere from vitamin supplements to electroplating baths. Transition metals also make up the pigments in many paints and compose all minerals. Typically, transition metals are found in the cationic form since they readily oxidize, or lose electrons, and are surrounded by electron donors called ligands. These ligands do not form ionic or covalent bonds with the metal center,...
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Protein Complex Assembly
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2020
Proteins can form homomeric complexes with another unit of the same protein or heteromeric complexes with different types. Most protein complexes self-assemble spontaneously via ordered pathways, while some proteins need assembly factors that guide their proper assembly. Despite the crowded intracellular environment, proteins usually interact with their correct partners and form functional complexes. Many viruses self-assemble into a fully functional unit using the infected host cell to...
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations of Blood Flow in a Cerebral Aneurysm
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2023
Source: Joseph C. Muskat, Vitaliy L. Rayz, and Craig J. Goergen, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana The objective of this video is to describe recent advancements of computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations based on patient- or animal-specific vasculature. Here, subject-based vessel segmentations were created, and, using a combination of open-source and commercial tools, a high-resolution numerical solution was determined within a flow model.
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Protein Complexes with Interchangeable Parts
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2020
Groups of proteins may form a complex where each protein in this complex has a different role in the overall execution of the complex’s function. Often some of the proteins in the complex can be replaced by a closely related variant to give a complex that contains many of the same components yet is functionally distinct. The SCF ubiquitin ligase is a protein complex of five individual proteins. This complex attaches ubiquitin to other target proteins to mark them for degradation. In order to...
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Formation of Complex Ions
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2020
A type of Lewis acid-base chemistry involves the formation of a complex ion (or a coordination complex) comprising a central atom, typically a transition metal cation, surrounded by ions or molecules called ligands. These ligands can be neutral molecules like H2O or NH3, or ions such as CN− or OH−. Often, the ligands act as Lewis bases, donating a pair of electrons to the central atom. These types of Lewis acid-base reactions are examples of a broad subdiscipline called coordination...
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Asymptotic analysis examines how computational requirements change as the number of samples, measured features, images, or clinical records increases. It emphasizes growth trends rather than performance on one dataset, allowing researchers to compare whether a method remains practical at larger scales. This perspective supports early selection of algorithms for expanding genomic and other high-dimensional studies.
Time and memory constrain different parts of an analysis. A method may finish in an acceptable period yet require more memory than available, or conserve memory while taking too long to process a growing dataset. Considering both resources helps researchers identify workable approaches and evaluate tradeoffs when analyzing genomic, transcriptomic, imaging, or clinical information.
Complexity classes organize problems according to the efficiency of the resources needed to compute solutions. This classification gives researchers a general way to reason about feasibility without relying only on a single implementation or dataset size. In cancer research, it can inform whether a proposed analysis is suitable for large-scale biomarker discovery, tumor classification, or treatment prediction.
Adding genes, transcripts, image measurements, or clinical variables can increase the input size and raise the computational cost of analysis. The resulting scaling behavior may affect processing time, memory use, and overall feasibility. Complexity analysis therefore helps researchers anticipate whether a pipeline can handle high-dimensional data before applying it to increasingly large cancer studies.
Researchers can first identify the pipeline's main inputs, then examine how each algorithm's time and memory requirements grow with dataset size. They can compare candidate methods, consider the available computational resources, and weigh expected accuracy against cost. This process helps produce scalable workflows for biomarker discovery, tumor classification, and treatment prediction.
It becomes especially important when studies combine large genomic, transcriptomic, imaging, or clinical datasets, because resource demands can determine whether an analysis is practical. Complexity principles help researchers choose methods that remain manageable as data expand. They also support planning for computationally intensive tasks such as discovering biomarkers or predicting treatment responses.