From Benchtop to Desktop

New computational biology curricula marries wet lab and computational power to solve mysteries of genetics and more.
Wiggle Room

Understanding Helicobacter pylori shape with computational mapping

Computational Biology

Computational biology combines the power of modern computing and mathematical modeling with biological research to study how systems behave, evolve and adapt. Both UW and Fred Hutch are home to some of the country's top computational biology labs, pushing the boundaries of traditional benchwork in genetics, virology, microbiology and beyond.

Model Curricula

Autumn

MCB 536
Tools for Computational Biology

STAT 509
Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

winter

GS 540
Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology: Genome and Protein Sequence Analysis

Genome 559
Introduction to Statistical and Computational Genomics

STAT 513
Statistical Inference

spring

GS 541
Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology: Molecular Evolution

A view of the new Molecular Engineering and Sciences building on campus. The basement is the largest vibration-free lab on the West Coast!

A Guide to CompBio Courses

Check out a brief annotated list of courses for those who want to become computational(ly) competent from scratch!

MCB DATA SCIENCE OPTION

For more information: https://mcb-seattle.edu/mcb-data-science-option/

Area Of interest Faculty

Featured Research

Area Directors

Faculty Area Directors: Jesse Bloom, Cole Trapnell

Student Area Directors: Eliza Barkan, Katharine Chen, Lucian DiPeso, Maggie Russell

Lab Openings

Stergachis Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Epigenetics, Human Disease, Gene Regulation, Clinical Genomics

Aitchison Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

systems cell biology, host-pathogen interactions, infectious diseases

Beliveau Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Chromosomes, imaging technologies

Matsen Lab:
Spring, Winter

adaptive immune receptors, phylogenetics, evolution

Bhardwaj Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Computational Design, High-throughput synthesis and Screening, Drug Discovery

Ha Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Cancer genomics, liquid biopsies, machine learning, tumor evolution, copy number alterations, structural variation, circulating tumor DNA

Gujral Lab:
Winter, Permanent Position

Systems Biology or Tumor microenvironment or Metastasis or Wnt pathway or Kinase signaling Hippo pathway

Bielas Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Bloom Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Computational Biology

MacCoss Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

proteomics, protein biochemistry, bioinformatics, technology development, big data, quantitative analysis, model organisms, aging, Alzheimer's disease, mass spectrometry