Our paper titled "Cell specificity of human regulatory annotations and their genetic effects on gene expression" is now accepeted in Genetics! Thanks to Arushi for leading us through this project!

We wish everyone a happy holiday season!

Exciting developments at 2-day FUSION conference, an international collaboration between investigators across five institutions to study diabetes.

The Parker and Bielas labs have teamed up and were awarded a Precision Health Initiative grant titled "Genetic modulators of opioid exposure in human neurologic development." Congrats to the team!

Ricardo was nominated by the Bioinformatics Department for the Excellence in Teaching Award

Our work with the Collins lab at NIH "BoostMe accurately predicts DNA methylation values in whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of multiple human tissues" is now published in BMC Genomics

YAMDA, a GPU accelerated motif discovery algorithm developed by postdoctoral fellow Daniel Quang is now published in Bioinformatics.

Ricardo's submission was selected for a talk at Biology of Genomes 2018!

Peter Orchard will remain a trainee on the NHGRI-funding Genome Sciences Training Program, a training grant for PhD students and postdocs.