The

Computational Biology Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fo ...

Department (CBD) is a division within the School of Computer Science at

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. It is located in the Gates-Hillman Center. Established in 2007 by Robert F. Murphy as the Lane Center for Computational Biology with funding from

Raymond J. Lane Raymond J. Lane (born December 26, 1946) is an American business executive and strategist specializing in technology and finance. Lane is best known for assisting corporations with technology strategy, organizational development, team building, ...

and Stephanie Lane, CBD became a department within the School of Computer Science in 2016. CBD faculty and students conduct research in

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

systems biology Systems biology is the computational modeling, computational and mathematical analysis and modeling of complex biological systems. It is a biology-based interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on complex interactions within biological syst ...

, and

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. Its faculty have served as president of the

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, president of the International Society of Advanced Cytometry, and as a member of the

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Council of Councils; they have won awards such as the

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, a

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, th
Okawa Award
a

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Young Investigator Award, and a

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. As part of the HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Initiative, CBD received funding from

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and the

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(NIBIB) to develop an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in

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with the

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, which was founded as the

Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology The Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D Program in Computational Biology (CPCB) is an interdisciplinary graduate training program in computational biology. It is a joint program between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh ...

in 2005. This program is currently receiving training support through a National Institutes of Health T32 Training Grant. CBD is the home of the B.S. in Computational Biology, one of the four B.S. degree programs within

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. The Computational Biology undergraduate program is ranked as one of the top 3 programs by US News. CBD is the home of an NIH Center for the

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Integration, Visualization & Engaging (HIVE) Initiative led by

Ziv Bar-Joseph Ziv Bar-Joseph is an Israeli computational biologist and Professor in the Computational Biology Department and the Machine Learning Department at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Education Bar-Joseph studied computer science at Bac ...

and an NIH Center for Multiscale Analysis of 4D Nucleome Structure and Function by Comprehensive Multimodal Data Integration led by Jian Ma.

Notable faculty

* Robert F. Murphy (founding chair) * Russell Schwartz (chair) *

Jaime Carbonell Jaime Guillermo Carbonell (July 29, 1953 – February 28, 2020) was a computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the development of natural language processing tools and technologies. His extensive research in machine translation result ...

* Jian Ma *

Kathryn Roeder Kathryn M. Roeder is an American statistician known for her development of statistical methods to uncover the genetic basis of complex disease and her contributions to mixture models, semiparametric inference, and multiple testing. Roeder holds po ...

Roni Rosenfeld Roni Rosenfeld is an Israeli-American computer scientist and computational epidemiologist, currently serving as the head of thMachine Learning Departmentat Carnegie Mellon University. He is an international expert in machine learning, infectious ...

Eric Xing Eric Poe Xing is an American computer scientist, academic administrator, and entrepreneur. Prior to his appointment as President of MBZUAI, Xing was a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and researcher in mac ...

Notable meetings hosted

* RECOMB 2014 * Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2013 (joint with University of Pittsburgh) * Automated Personal Genome Analysis (APGA) 2013 * Bioimage Informatics 2010

Degree programs

* Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (with

) * M.S. in Computational Biology (joint with the Department of Biological Sciences) * M.S. in Biotechnology Innovation and Computation (joint with

Language Technologies Institute The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) is a research institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and focuses on the area of language technologies. The institute is home to 33 faculty with the primary scho ...

) * B.S. in Computational Biology * Minor in Computational Biology

References

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