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Human Technopole welcomes Wolfram Pönisch as a new Research Group Leader in the Computational Biology Research Centre - Biophysical Modelling and Simulations Programme. A theoretical physicist by training, Wolfram studies the stochastic morphodynamics of living systems: how cells and tissues change shape, fluctuate and use these dynamics to influence biological processes. The post Introducing Wol…

The biotech startup hephaistos.bio has obtained CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to help manufacturers replace complex and energy-intensive chemical processes with more resilient and sustainable production methods. Combining computational biology, chemistry, and machine learning, the ETH-born venture d...

The UNC Chapel Hill Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology congratulates 8 Spring graduates for their hard work and accomplishments! We look forward to seeing you continue to grow and can’t wait to see what is next for you! You … Read more

The new Multimodal AI Across Scales Research Programme, within Human Technopole's Computational Biology Research Centre, develops AI methods that connect biological data across modalities and scales, from molecules and cells through tissues and organs to patients and populations. The post Introducing the Multimodal AI Across Scales Programme with Florian Jug appeared first on Human Technopole .

Nature Communications, Published online: 22 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73599-8 CUT&Tag data can contain artifacts caused by open-chromatin bias. PATTY is a computational method that corrects this bias, enabling more accurate histone modification signal detection and single-cell clustering, improving epigenomics analysis.

Human Technopole is offering up to 4 fully funded PhD scholarships through the SEMM PhD Program in Systems Medicine. These scholarships are open to talented and motivated graduates - both from Italy and abroad - interested in pursuing doctoral research in the following areas: Computational Biology, Funcional Genomics, Population and Medical Genomics. The post 4 fully funded PhD scholarships in Sy…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 09 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-47323-x Graph neural networks can predict ketosynthase substrate specificity

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate students were recognized by the University of North Carolina Graduate School in April for their prestigious external fellowships. External fellowships, which are highly competitive awards from the federal government and other organizations, add to Carolina’s … Read more

Nature Communications, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72093-5 Antibody discovery often requires major experimental effort. Here, authors report a virtual screen using AlphaFold-Multimer that identified nanobody binders to MRGPRX2, a therapeutic target for itch, demonstrating fully in silico antibody discovery.

Biomolecular Modeling at Scale Wohlwend, Jeremy Predicting the structure and interactions of biomolecules is a fundamental problem in computational biology, with broad implications for disease understanding and drug discovery. Advances in deep learning have enabled remarkable progress, but scaling these approaches to the varied and complex realities of biology is a persistent challenge. This work…

Next step Choose the next useful decision step first. Use the guide or checklist that matches this page's intent before you ask for a manuscript-level diagnostic. Bioinformatics is the leading Oxford University Press (OUP) journal for computational biology, bioinformatics methods, and systems biology. It publishes methods papers, software tools, and computational analyses across genomics, proteom…

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AI-driven nutrigenomics integrates genomic and microbial data to design personalized nutrients. This perspective introduces Digital Nutrient Specification, Functional Deficiency Scoring, and genotype/polybiome-aligned biomanufacturing for precision nutrition.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Will Nenad (Katie Hoadley Lab) publishes “Hepatocyte-targeted Bap1 reduction in the liver primes an inflammatory transcriptional response” in G3 (Genes | Genomes | Genetics). This study highlights how hepatocyte-specific loss of Bap1 drives distinct … Read more

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Nina Nishiyama (Terry Furey and Shehzad Sheikh Labs) publishes “eQTL in diseased colon tissue identifies potential target genes associated with IBD” in Nature Communications. This publication highlights the power of using diseased tissue to … Read more

A new PhD track is being added to the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences (DGP) for the 2026 application cycle, to enhance student learning and build community around computational biology and bioinformatics at Feinberg. The post New Computational Biology Track Added to PhD Graduate Program appeared first on News Center .

Mordechai Walder Junior Research Scientist Mordechai Walder’s computational biology research has focused on investigating the mechanisms underlying disease through building multimodal prediction models of protein binding interfaces, as well as leveraging gene expression data to model emergent cellular communication networks. He has also spent years studying Talmudic law and Jewish philosophy, in …

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