Center for Computational Biology
A research center in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
News
- March 20, 2014. An international team led by David Neale at UC Davis published the genome of the loblolly pine tree, the largest genome sequenced and assembled ...(read more)
- March 2014. Kraken, a new tool developed by Derrick Wood and his advisor Steven Salzberg, is published in Genome Biology. Kraken is very fast program for classifying ...(read more)
- February 2014. Ben Langmead is awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. Since 1955, these fellowships have been given out annually to early-career scientists "whose achievements and potential ...(read more)
- February 2014. Steven Salzberg and Mihaela Pertea published a new method for fast, accurate detection of mutations in exome studies and in comparisons of normal versus diseased ...(read more)
- December 2013. Ben Langmead is featured in GenomeWeb's annual Young Investigators issue, which highlights early-career scientists doing especially promising work. See the full list of young investigators ...(read more)
The Center for Computational Biology (CCB) is a multidisciplinary center dedicated to research on genomics, genetics, and DNA sequencing technology. CCB brings together scientists and engineers from many fields, including 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. CCB provides the computing hardware for the analyses run through its consulting group. More about CCB ...»
