DNA, Proteins Form Communities That Provide Insight Into Cellular Processes PITTSBURGH—Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an algorithm used to study social networks, such as Facebook communities, and adapted it to identify...
Robin E.C. Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational & Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named one of the 126 Sloan Research Fellows for 2020. “To receive a Sloan Research...
Yang Yang, a Ph.D. student in Jian Ma‘s lab, was recognized during Rising Stars 2019, an intensive workshop for women graduate students who are pursuing careers in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. The participants in...
Machine Learning Enhances Study of 3D Genome Structure in Cell Nucleus Computational methods used to fill in missing pixels in low-quality images or video also can help scientists provide missing information for how DNA...
Dr. Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis was recently featured in Nature and Science magazine articles which highlighted her work on de novo gene birth. While one talks about how evolution builds new genes from scratch, the other...
Project Title: From Non-Coding to Coding: Uncovering the Hidden Coding Potential of Non-Coding Sequences and Its Role in De Novo Gene Evolution Grant ID: DP2-GM137422 Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational...
Hosein Mohimani has a knack for finding ever-faster ways of searching giant databases for potential therapeutic drugs. Now, the computer scientist is trying a new approach in which the size of the databases isn’t something...
Takis Benos, Professor and Vice Chair at the Department of Computational and Systems Biology, and his collaborators were awarded a U01 research grant to study changes occurring in healthy lungs as they age. The...
We’re excited to welcome another amazing group of incoming students to the CPCB program! Orientation is off to a great start with social lunches, activities and faculty research talks. Please join us in welcoming...
Second-Year Computational Biology Ph.D. Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Laura Tung, a second-year Computational Biology Ph.D. student in Prof. Carl Kingsford’s group, has been chosen to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. ...
