What precisely is Computational Biomedicine?

Computational biomedicine is the use of computer-based tools and approaches to simulate and model the human body in health and disease. Medicine is a new and quickly expanding subject that encompasses the entire spectrum of human biology, physiology, and illness. This involves genomes as well as the entire human body, epidemiology, and community health. Molecular medicine, simulation, modeling approaches, imaging techniques, and information technology are all part of computational biomedicine

What is the need for computational biomedicine?

Humans are unique, complex systems with a plethora of information to be explored, from a biological cell made up of hundreds of different chemicals that work together, to the billions of cells that make up our tissue organs, and organ systems, to our society, which is made up of 6 billion unique interacting individuals. Such complex systems do not have identical and replaceable parts. Individuals have individual personalities that add value and contribute to the systems in which they participate. As a result, accurate storage, identification, and application of this information is required for both therapeutic and research purposes.

Biological systems span several orders of magnitude, from the smallest microscopic scales to the largest macroscopic dimensions. Multi-scale, multi-science systems link health to the genome, proteome, metabolome, and physiome. In recent years, computational biomedicine has created immensely powerful tools for modelling and simulating fundamental processes in natural systems at various sizes.