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Center for Computational Molecular Biology
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The Center for Computational Molecular Biology @ Brown promotes the development, implementation, and application of analytical and computational methods to foundational questions in the biological and medical sciences
CCMB
The Center for Computational Molecular Biology @ Brown promotes the development, implementation, and application of analytical and computational methods to foundational questions in the biological and medical sciences
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Computational biology involves the analysis and discovery of biological phenomena using computational tools, and the algorithmic design and analysis of such tools.
Learn about the dedicated faculty, affiliated faculty, staff, and students that make up CCMB.
The Predoctoral Training Program (T32) in Biological Data Science is funded by the National Institutes of Health/NIGMS award T32GM128596.
Our prime intellectual mission is to promote the development, implementation, and application of analytical and computational methods to foundational questions in the biological and medical sciences.
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Fall 2025 Graduate Student Research Symposium
During CCMB's Fall 2025 Graduate Research Symposium this week, four senior PhD students gave presentations on their current research projects to fellow students and CCMB faculty, with topics ranging from resistance to anti-malarial drugs to introgression in archaic humans.
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Ying Ma, the Edens Family Assistant Professor of Healthcare Communications and Technology and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, will address genomic challenges using computational methods in her upcoming research supported by three recent grants from the NSF and NIH.
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A team of researchers at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) published their recent findings in Science magazine: "The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection."
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