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ASSA 2006 SESSION : New

ASSA presidential address. No man is an island. ASSA-SAGES Congress, Cape Town, 7 August 2004.

Mr Chairman, distinguished invited guests, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the ASSA Conference of 2004. Professor Krige, Dr Panieri and the local organising committee, thank you for all the trouble, energy and effort that have gone into years of planning the scientific programme, poster sessions, banquets and social events, accommodation, air tickets and other details of the conference. We als...

In Memoriam on Assa Reichert (1943 - 2015)

Unfortunately on May 14th, 2015 our colleague and friend Assa Reichert lost his battle against his difficult disease. Assa, Reichert, our very long time member of Board and Council of European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), was our a true friend. He devoted to his family, his country, his friends, his profession and EFMI, IMIA and Medical informatics, generally. As Medical informati...

Intimidating butterflies.

Many butterfly species feature two or four conspicuously coloured eyespots on their wings; the most commonly heard explanation for these markings is that they are used to intimidate predators. However, this explanation has stood, until recently, on the flimsiest of empirical foundations. Now, Adrian Vallin and colleagues have demonstrated empirically the effectiveness of these signals in dissua...

ASSA-PBN 2.0: A Software Tool for Probabilistic Boolean Networks

We present a major new release of ASSA-PBN, a software tool for modelling, simulation, and analysis of probabilistic Boolean networks (PBNs). PBNs are a widely used computational framework for modelling biological systems. The steady-state dynamics of a PBN is of special interest and obtaining it poses a significant challenge due to the state space explosion problem which often arises in the ca...