The Center for Computational Biology
A joint research center spanning the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
News
- May 27, 2020. Congrats to Jeff Leek on being selected as the 2020 Spiegelman award winner, for the constellation of his high-impact research, educational contributions, and visionary efforts to advance society thru Data Science. ...(read more)
- February 14, 2020. ISCB announces that Steven Salzberg will receive the Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award at the 2020 ISMB conference. See the press release at https://www.iscb.org/iscb-news-items/4249-2020-feb14-iscb-congratulates-2020-award-winners.
- February 7, 2020. Ph.D. student Rachel Sherman publishes a major review of pan-genomes in Nature Reviews Genetics. See the article at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-020-0210-7.
- November 2019. 2 CCB faculty members and 2 former CCB students make the 2019 list of world's most highly-cited researchers. Current faculty on the list are Mike Schatz and Steven Salzberg; former students are Adam ...(read more)
- August 2019. HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype are published in Nature Biotechnology, led by former CCB postdoc Daehwan Kim, now an Asst. Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
The Center for Computational Biology (CCB) is a multidisciplinary center dedicated to research on genomics, genetics, DNA sequencing technology, and computational methods for DNA and RNA sequence analysis. CCB brings together scientists and engineers from many fields, including biomedical engineering, computer science, biostatistics, genomics, genetics, molecular biology, physics, and mathematics, all of whom share a common interest in gaining a better understanding of how genes and genomes affect biological functions. We develop and apply technology that uses sequence data to study a wide range of questions, including how genes cause disease, how genes change in response to different conditions within the cell, and how genomes evolve.
In addition to its research program, CCB provides bioinformatics expertise to departments and centers throughout the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, through a consulting group trained in the latest computational methods for sequence analysis. More about CCB ...»