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“Ourdepartment,thefirstsuchdepartmenttobecreatedwithinaSchoolofComputerScience,emphasizesdevelopingrigorousandtheoreticallysoundcomputationalapproachestobuildingcomprehensivemodelsthataddressthefundamentalproblemofunderstandinghowbiologicalsystemsfunction.Computationalmethodswillalsobeessentialtotranslatethisunderstandingintoimprovedhealthcare,andwehavesignificantinterestindevelopingclinicalapplicationsofthemachinelearningandanalysistoolswearedeveloping.Ourapproachestakeadvantageofthegrowingavailabilityofgenome-scaledatasetstobuildcomprehensivemodels,buttheyarealsocriticallyneededtodecidewhatadditionalexperimentsshouldbedoneinordertooptimallyimprovethemodelsandleadasrapidlyaspossibleto
invaluableinsightsintopossiblemeansfortreatingorpreventingdisease.”
Robert F. Murphy, Ph.D.
Head, Computational Biology Department
Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology and Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Machine Learning
Computational Biology
Ph.D. Program
• JointPh.D.in ComputationalBiology
Master’s Programs
• JointM.S.in ComputationalBiology
• JointM.S.inBiotechnology InnovationandComputation
Undergraduate Programs
• JointB.S.inComputational Biology
• MinorinComputational Biology
Faculty by the Numbers:
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Efficient Algorithms for Genome Sequence Analyses
Nucleicacidsequencinghasbecomeaninexpensive,commonplacetoolforbiologistsandclinicians;however,analysisremainscomputationallyslow,limitingitsusability.Wearedevelopingfast,morememory-efficientalgorithmsforusingsequencingforgeneexpressionquantification,genomeassembly,genomicvariantdetection,andotheranalysessothattheycanbecarriedoutatclinicalorpopulationscales.Currentareasoffocusincludescalingsequencesearchuptopetabyte-scalecollections,fasterandmoreaccuratedetectionofgenomicvariants.Wearealsodevelopingmethodstolearnhowvariantsofmanygenescombinetoaffectthechancesofacquiringcomplexdiseases.Thisworkwillenableresearchers,hospitalsandsequencingcenterstoperformtheanalysesrequiredtoinformclinicaldecisionsandtobuildbettermodelsofbiologicalsystemswithoutenormouscomputationalresources.
Spatiotemporal Network Learning
Networksofinteractingmoleculesunderlieallbiologicalsystems.Creationofcomputationalmodelsthatcanbecombinedtorepresentandsimulatecomplexinteractingnetworksiscriticaltounderstandinghowcells,tissuesandorganismsfunctionandhowthingscangowrongleadingtodisease.Thisareaisaparticularfocusinthedepartment,rangingfromdynamicnetworkmodelsatthemolecularleveltospatiotemporalmodelsofmorphologicalchangesatthecellandtissuelevel.
The strongest negative genetic interactions appear at the top of the sorted table, but strong positive genetic interactions at the bottom of the table may also be of interest (see Notes 18 and 19).
8. Assess the functional enrichment of the SDREM pathways. Obtain a list of all proteins on the predicted signaling pathways by opening topPathNodes_itr<N>.noa with spreadsheet software
Fig. 3 SDREM EGF response signaling pathways. There are three types of nodes along the signaling pathways. Red nodes (top) are the sources given as input. Green nodes (bottom) are the active TFs on the regulatory paths (which are also assigned by SDREM as shown in Fig. 2). Blue nodes (middle) are intermediate proteins that are used to connect the sources and target TFs. Diamond shaped nodes (ELK1, GRB2, HRAS, JUN, MAP2K1, and MAPK8) were assigned a large node prior making them more likely to be included on the predicted pathway. Circles received the default prior. All edges among these nodes are displayed. Solid edges are PPI whose ori-entation was inferred by SDREM. Dashed edges are interactions with a previously known orientation
SDREM for Reconstructing Response Networks
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Gregory Johnson Ph.D.studentinComputationalBiology
GregoryJohnson’sgoalistousemachinelearningandstatisticalmodelingmethodstolearnhowtoputacelltogether.Hetakeshundredsorthousandsofimagesofcellsinwhichparticularcomponentshavebeenvisualizedbyfluorescentlabelingandconstructsamodelthatcapturestheessenceofthepatternstheimagescontain.Thishasenabledthefirst-evermodelsofhowthepatternsofdifferentorganellesarerelatedtoeachother.
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Hao Wang Ph.D.studentinComputationalBiology
Theproductionofproteinsisfundamentaltoalllife.Proteinsareproducedfromlineartemplatetranscriptsbymolecularmachinescalledribosomesthatwalkdownthesetemplates.Haoisstudyingthemotionoftheseribosomes.Sheisdevelopingnovelcomputationalmodelingandoptimizationtechniquestodetectribosometrafficjamsandstallingandtodeterminethe“speedlimit”ateachpointalongatranscriptfromnext-generationsequencingdata.Thesearebeingusedtocreatemoresophisticatedandmoreaccuratemodelsofproteinproductionthatwillenableustobetterpredicthowacellrespondstovaryingconditionsandstresses
bycontrollinglevelsofproteinabundance.
“BeginningwithitsfoundingastheLaneCenterforComputationalBiology,thedepartment’suniquecomputationalapproachtobiologicalquestionsisadefinitiveadvantagetoourcampuscommunityandpartnersaswesolvethemostdifficultbiologicalquestionsthatfaceourworld.“
Andrew W. Moore Dean, School of Computer Science
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