Our group at the Computer Science department at Johns Hopkins University studies methods for Computational Genomics. The laboratory’s goal is to make high-throughput life science data as useful as possible to everyday life scientists.
High-throughput life science instruments, especially DNA sequencers , are improving rapidly. Sequencing has become a ubiquitous tool in the study of biology, genetics and disease. Today, because sequencing throughput is outpacing computer speed and storage capacity , the most crucial biological research bottlenecks are increasingly computational: computing, storage, labor, and power.
We pursue this goal by: