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Presents a study that assessed the completeness of disease reporting from a managed care organization's automated laboratory-based reporting system to the California Department of Health Services through local public health departments. Background on the use of infectious disease surveillance data to identify disease outbreaks; Information on the use of passive reporting systems; Methodology and data used; Results and implications for public health.

We describe the proceedings and conclusions from the “Workshop on Applications of Protein Models in Biomedical Research” (the Workshop) that was held at the University of California, San Francisco on 11 and 12 July, 2008. At the Workshop, international scientists involved with structure modeling explored (i) how models are currently used in biomedical research, (ii) the requirements and challenges for different applications, and (iii) how the interaction between the computational and experimental research communities could be strengthened to advance the field. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]