Researchers in the Algorithms and Bioinformatics cluster develop tools that address real-world problems in medicine, the environment, industry and beyond. Research in the cluster has supported ...

Computer algorithms have been a helpful tool in biomedical research for decades, and their importance has been growing steadily over that time. But what we’re now experiencing is nothing short of a ...

Computational Biology, Biomedical Computing and Medical/Health Informatics The explosion of huge biological and medical data sets creates the opportunity to drive innovations in the life sciences ...

Earlier this year, Andrew Smith wrote about "Franken-algorithms" for The Guardian, suggesting that software in our lives had become complex and unpredictable and the consequences could be deadly.

Summary SAVANA uses a machine learning algorithm to identify cancer-specific structural variations and copy number aberrations in long-read DNA sequencing data. The complex structure of cancer genomes ...

Now, Robert C. Edgar, an independent researcher in Mill Valley, Calif., has an alternative: a sequencing algorithm that delivers both high accuracy and speed. Edgar calls his new algorithm MUSCLE ...

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the scientists behind the UK’s gene sequencing work during the coronavirus pandemic to find out how cloud and data analytics enabled their success ...