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Dr. Wilson officially retired from The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in September 2020, yet he remains on as a scientist emeritus in its Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, where he was co-chief for 14 years.
… teoP the Alchemist “A poem about writing poetry and doing science, both are about making observations and … 2020, yet he remains on as a scientist emeritus in its Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, where he was co-chief for 14 … a lifetime spent expanding our knowledge of human diseases and disorders. The patterns of fate have followed him through …
Funding Opportunities
Funding Opportunities for Investigator-Initiated Research in Computational Genomics and Data Science
The Computational Genomics and Data Science Program Announcements (PARs) invite applications for investigator-initiated research efforts fostering innovation in computational genomics, data science, statistics, bioinformatics, and data visualization and exploration.
… Awardee Institution Title Project Number and Details SONG, YUN S UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY Scalable Computational Methods for Genealogical Inference: from … Data HG012573 RAY, DEBASHREE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Statistical methods for identifying pleiotropy between …
Staff
Dr. Wilson is the co-chief of and senior investigator in NHGRI's Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch.
… College, magna cum laude, with a B.A. in biology in 1975, and received the H.P. Studivant Award as the Outstanding … Ph.D., (1980) and did his postdoctoral training in statistical genetics with Robert C. Elston, Ph.D., in the … Institute in 1995. He is a scientist emeritus in the Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, at the …
Office of Genomic Data Science
NHGRI is committed to increasing the availability of educational and research opportunities in computational genomics and data science (CGDS).
… is committed to increasing the availability of educational and research opportunities in computational genomics and data science (CGDS). Through recent funding … (contact PI) University of Hawaii at Manoa Pacific Computational Genomics and Data Sciences Research Education …
CRGGH is now part of the newly-created Metabolic, Cardiovascular, and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch.
… As part of this reorganization, the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) is now part of the newly-created … Cardiovascular, and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch (MCIDGB). … appreciated with the increased interaction between CRGGH and other MCIDGB groups, including those of Dan Kastner , …
Event
NHGRI and George Mason University's Institute for Digital InnovAtion co-host the Computational Genomics Conference, on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.
… NHGRI and George Mason University's Institute for Digital InnovAtion co-host the 2021 Computational Genomics Conference. Computational and data science … 2021 Computational Genomics Conference … University's Institute for Digital InnovAtion co-host the Computational Genomics Conference, on Wednesday, April 28, …
Research Funding
Bioinformatics and computational biology are cross-cutting areas broadly relevant and fundamental across the entire spectrum of genomics.
… Computational genomics has been an important area of focus for NHGRI since … Human Genome Project. Today, however, advances in tools and techniques for data generation are rapidly increasing the … increase requires researchers to rely ever more heavily on computational and data science tools for the storage, …
Research at NHGRI
The Translational and Functional Genomics Branch explores the genetic, epigenetic and metagenomic basis of human disorders.
… The Translational and Functional Genomics Branch (TFGB) studies how genome structure and function … researchers have developed a wide range of experimental and computational techniques to study all aspects of the genomes … Branch Staff … Translational and Functional Genomics Branch …
Fact Sheet
Genomic data science is a field of study that enables researchers to use powerful computational and statistical methods to decode the functional information hidden in DNA sequences.
… a field of study that enables researchers to use powerful computational and statistical methods to decode the functional information … quantity of complex data associated with human genomes, genomics is now considered a "big data" field. … of gaining such informed consent.  Privacy: Powerful computational tools can take sequence data from de-identified …
Research at NHGRI
The NHGRI Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch identifies and study genes that contribute to cancer susceptibility and progression.
… The Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch seeks to identify and study genes that contribute to … The branch focuses on inherited and somatic (body cell) mutations … the processes of cancer susceptibility, tumor initiation and progression, treatment response, and develop tools for …