Medical, health, and genomics
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Statistical analyses of multidomain data for the microbiome
Longitudinal studies using perturbations enable us to study the resilience of the human microbiome. These are particularly informative in the case of antibiotic courses and colonic clean-out. The heterogeneity of the sources of information (time,…
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Using Large Scale Genomic Databases to Improve Disease Variant Interpretation
Rapid advances in sequencing technology have led to the generation of genome-scale DNA sequencing data for more than 2 million individuals worldwide. These data represent incredibly powerful information about the distribution and impact of genetic…
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Building a New View of Transcriptome Variations
In this talk, I will review some of the challenges and advances we have made in building a new view of transcriptome complexity, along with and the kind of tools that can be used to…
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One genome to rule them all, one genome to find them
I will highlight some methodologies and examples of finding causal mutations in both medical genomics and comparative genomics contexts.
Event
Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2017
Computational Aspects of Biological Information (CABI) 2017 is the fifth one-day symposium on challenges and successes in computational biology. CABI 2017 will be held at Microsoft Research New England on October 13, 2017, and will…
Project
Pose Tracking with Wearable and Ambient Devices
Summary Analyzing human motion with high autonomy requires advanced capabilities in sensing, communication, energy management and AI. Wearable systems help us go beyond external cameras enabling motion analysis in the wild. However, such systems are still…
Microsoft Research Blog
Opportunities abound in the creative and collaborative culture of STEM
The explosion of data available today everywhere from biomedicine to the arts is opening new opportunities for researchers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math to pursue creative and collaborative endeavors that have deep…
