Can scientists translate a top performance in cycle racing into a computer model? Scientists of the Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology and the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre published an article with a simulation of energy conversion in the human body.
They took metabolic data on Lance Armstrong to simulate the Alpe d'Huez time trial in the Tour de France of 2004, partly by making use of equations developed for NASA to simulate astronauts.
This simulation study on the virtual physiological human helps scientists to understand how the body behaves at the limits of human performance as demonstrated by champion athletes.
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