Our mission is to apply cutting edge machine learning methods to key problems in bioinformatics.

Current projects

Integrating Functional Genomics data with Genetics to Help Understand Human Disease Common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes and psychiatric illnesses are caused by a combination of multiple genetic and environmental factors. We are collaborating with researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to perform genome-level analysis that integrates genetic and functional genomic data to study effects of multiple genes jointly. More...

Scientific Publications Past and present scientific publications More...

Collaborators

• Richard Durbin
  Head of the Informatics Division at the Sanger Centre
• Manolis Dermitzakis
  Head of Team 16 at the Sanger Centre
• Oliver Stegle
  University of Cambridge
• Leopold Parts
  Wellcome Trust, Sanger Centre
• Alexandra Nica
  Wellcome Trust, Sanger Centre
• Hetunandan Kamichetty
  Carnegie Mellon
• Jim Huang
  University of Toronto

Latest News

• Accounting for Non-Genetic Factors Improves the Power of eQTL studies has been published in the proceedings of RECOMB 2008.
• Bayesian association of haplotypes and non genetic factors to regulatory and phenotypic variation in human populations has been published in Bioinformatics

Related Links

• Technical Computing Initiative
• Computational Biology Group

Internships

• We have open positions for internships throughout the year.