Computational Biology

In a paper that appeared in Nature Genetics, researchers find that STRs, far from being neutral
(or junk) provides a hidden layer of functional information.

Machine learning applied to cancer: A PhD student doubles the number of breast cancer drivers

Felix Sanchez-Garcia, a computer science PhD student, describes a new algorithm that integrates data from multiple diverse sources to discover new breast cancer drivers.

Genome-wide association studies, minus the Winner’s Curse, are shown to be reliable and replicable

Columbia researchers de-bias the effects of the Winner’s Curse across a broad set of traits, finding that reporting deficiencies, not the paradigm of GWAS, are to blame for the failure to replicate.

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Computational biology and bioinformatics involve development and application of analysis methods for high throughput experimental data in molecular biology to facilitate biomedical research. Active topics of investigation in Columbia involve systems biology, biological networks, massively parallel (“next generation”) DNA sequencing, RNA sequencing, ChIP sequencing, analysis of transcription factor binding sites, single nucleotide polymorphisms, population genetics, molecular evolution, personalized medicine, tumor genomics.