KAUST scientists develop virus mutation tracker 1 min read · Wed, Jun 2 2021 News COVID-19 KAUST scientists have developed a user-friendly COVID-19 mutation tracking system, useful for authorities and scientists to quickly detect variants in their region, allowing them to make speedy policy and public health decisions.
CovMT: Tracking virus mutations across the world 1 min read · Sun, Feb 21 2021 News human health pathogens computation bioscience An interactive platform helps users visualize where SARS-CoV-2 mutations start, how wide they spread and how infectious they are.
Studying COVID-19’s envelope protein 1 min read · Tue, Jul 28 2020 News COVID-19 human health genomics A likeness between genes of the SARS and COVID-19 viruses could inform research into potential treatments.
CBRC goes to ECCB 2018 1 min read · Thu, Aug 9 2018 News Computational biology Nanopore Sequencing cwDTW algorithm ontology phenotypes SmuDGE The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) is one of the most important conferences in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology. Held in a different European city annually, this year's conference will take place in the historic city of Athens, Greece on September 8-12, 2018.
Computer models combat malaria 1 min read · Sun, Apr 15 2018 News bioscience drug discovery human health A new malaria metabolic model may uncover better ways to treat a highly deadly disease.
The awesome scope of big data 1 min read · Sun, Aug 6 2017 News big data artificial intelligence computational methods health protein structures biology Sifting through huge amounts of data may bring a better understanding of whale shark social structures, protein targets for drug therapies and disease-causing genes.
CBRC participates in NATDP 2017 1 min read · Sat, Jun 17 2017 News comparative genomics proteins Five research groups from CBRC participated in this year's National Academic Talent Development Program (NATDP) Symposium on April 20. The Knowledge Mining Lab presented their research on Microbial Knowledge-based Expolaration Systems as well as Novel Computational Methods that Facilitate Development of Cyanofactories for Free Fatty Acid Production.
Professors discuss big data and human health in latest Sci-Café 1 min read · Mon, Mar 13 2017 News machine learning big data artificial intelligence comparative genomics biomedical data human health Professors Takashi Gojobori, Xin Gao and Robert Hoehndorf spoke about big data and human health at the Sci-Café event held on February 27. Their talk, which was moderated by James Calvin, Vice President for Academic Affairs, aimed to answer the question, "Can Big Data Solve My Health Problems?" This event was open to all members of the KAUST community.
CEMSE Big Data Open Day shows off fascinating discoveries 1 min read · Thu, Dec 8 2016 News big data machine learning knowledge discovery supercomputing The fifth-anniversary event marked CEMSE's biggest successes and featured 20 KAUST discoveries, with more than 1,000 visitors from the community attending the event."Big data has many applications: to understand medicine better; to manage food supplies, and to connect objects. Data is at the center of everything," said Dean Mootaz Elnozahy of the University's Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division at the CEMSE Big Data Open Day held on December 4, 2016.