computational biology

Researchers used new simulations to obtain the first structures of elusive viruses.

Twenty-one years after the Human Genome Project, scientists still debate how many genes humans have.

Male patients who recover from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges than female patients.

Males recovered from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges.

Discover how machine learning helps scientists accelerate their research.  

At 33, Dal Co had already founded her own microbial ecology lab at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Despite increasingly strict journal policies requiring the release of computational code files along with research papers, many scientists remain reluctant to share—underscoring the need for better solutions.

With ever-advancing genetic technologies, researchers continue to document the genetic code of the human species.

Thirty years out from the start of the Human Genome Project, researchers have finally finished sequencing the full 3 billion bases of a person’s genetic code. But even a complete reference genome has its shortcomings.

Karen Miga discusses how she and collaborators sequenced the missing parts of the human genome almost two decades after the first Human Genome Project published its results.

Armed with improved imaging techniques and supercomputers, researchers are generating detailed three-dimensional images of cellular structures that anyone can explore.

Researchers characterize large mitochondrial deletions to understand their implications in neurological disorders.

An expert panel will present how synthetic biology accelerates the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and the medicinal pipeline.

Decoding Smell: Demystifying Human Disease and Behavior

More than 3,000 researchers have signed on to a petition that expresses concern over the agency’s 2021 application for the funding program, which emphasizes three areas of computational science and might further disadvantage underrepresented groups.

The University of Pittsburgh scientist, who was studying SARS-CoV-2, was shot to death in his home.

Folding@Home, currently focused on deciphering the workings of SARS-CoV-2, is the first project to have exascale-level computational muscle.

The Johns Hopkins University professor was a co-developer of the Galaxy platform, an open-source bioinformatics tool used in labs around the world.

Federal agencies, academic institutions, and industrial partners are joining forces to combat COVID-19 using artificial intelligence.