eScience Health and Wellness Initiative

eScience addresses the increasingly close integration of computing with basic scientific research. It is about how computing can revolutionize the sciences and how the sciences can revolutionize computing in return.  More...

Computational Aspects of Biological Information
The Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science, and Cryptography group at Microsoft Research hosted a workshop in December 2007, inviting presentations on phylogenetics and population genetics. Watch the presentations...

Helping Biomedical Research Help Others
A pair of projects supported by funding from Microsoft Research’s External Research & Programs group is encouraging various forms of communication that could have a dramatic impact on health care worldwide. Read more...

Vaccine Development Tools Released
Microsoft Research has released four new software tools on the open source project hosting Web site CodePlex. These tools are freely available to the AIDS research community and can be used to develop candidate AIDS vaccine designs. Read more...

External Research

• Computational Challenges of Genome Wide Association Studies RFP (2008)
• Cell Phone as a Platform for Healthcare (2007)
• Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition (2007)
• Computational Challenges in Synthetic Biology (2006)
• Selected Projects in Bioinformatics
• Selected Projects in Biomedical Computing

Internal Research

• Population Sequencing Using Short Reads: HIV as a Case Study
• Enabling Eco-Science Analysis with MatLab and DataCubes in the Cloud
• Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data
• Combinatorics of The Vaccine Design Problem: Definition and An Algorithm

• External Research & Programs Home
• Funding Opportunities

• Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI
  Indianapolis, IN, U.S.
  December 7-9, 2008
• Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
  Redmond, WA, U.S.
  July 27-29, 2008

• Microsoft Computational Biology Web Tools
• eScience Group
• European Science Initiative

• Science @ Microsoft
• Healthcare and Life Sciences
• Bio-IT Alliance
• CodePlex