research – Center for Computational Genomics and Data Science

CGDS and Rosalution Featured in NIH Research Highlights

We’re excited to share that our lab’s work was featured in the NIH Research Highlights post on the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Center for Precision Animal Modeling (C-PAM). This recognition underscores our contributions to advancing precision disease modeling, a field at the forefront of personalized medicine.

C-PAM is one of three U54 centers established under the NIH Precision Disease Modeling Initiative, focused on creating advanced animal models for precision therapies targeting complex disorders like ciliopathies and Roberts syndrome. Our tool, Rosalution, plays a key role in these efforts, helping link unique human genomic variants to disease with high-throughput, cost-effective pipelines.

This recognition highlights our lab’s commitment to developing innovative tools that enhance our understanding of disease mechanisms and empower clinicians and researchers.

Read more about the initiative and C-PAM’s work here.

CGDS and U-BDS Host R-Focused Carpentry Workshop

UAB’s CGDS and the U-BDS (Biological Data Science Core) held a Software Carpentry Workshop on December 14-15, 2023, to teach researchers computational skills. Instructors Manavalan Gajapathy, Austyn Trull, Bharat Mishra, Shaurita Hutchins, and Samuel Bharti, with the help of Santhosh Karthikeyan, Nilesh Kumar, Tarun Mamidi, and Yuwei Song, led sessions on the Unix Shell, version control with Git, and R and RStudio. The workshop included hands-on exercises and covered topics like data frame manipulation with dplyr and creating graphics with ggplot2. The event was designed to enhance participants’ technical skills and encourage using computational methods in research.

Learn more about the workshop at: https://u-bds.github.io/2023-12-14-uab/.

U-BDS member, Bharat Mishra, teaching about R.

U-BDS member, Austyn Trull, waiting to help attendees.