Nemo’s genome has been deciphered and made publicly available, helping researchers further investigate fish ecology and evolution.

Arwa Bin Raies, a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Bajic, defended her thesis proposal on May 14, 2018.

For Arnaud Hungler, CBRC's new systems administrator, an innocuous scientific calculator he received when he was 10 years old sparked a lifelong passion that eventually brought him to KAUST. "I was creating games on it," Arnaud shares. "It got me interested in coding and programming. After that my grandparents got me a computer and I started making even more complex games."

Miriam Escarlet Diaz Galicia successfully defended her master's thesis on May 8, 2018 for both directed research and thesis project, entitled "Engineering of Kinase-based Protein Interacting Devices: Active Expression of Tyrosine Kinase Domains". 

CBRC organized an Appreciation Dinner on May 9 to thank its members for all their hard work in the past year. Faculty, research scientists, postdocs, students, staff, and their families were invited to enjoy the meal at South Beach.

Sarah Alghamdi successfully defended her master's thesis on April 10, 2018. Her project, entitled "Ontology Design Patterns for Combining Pathology and Anatomy: Application to Study Ageing and Longevity in Inbred Mouse Strains", was well-received by a panel of professors that included Professor Vladimir Bajic, Associate Professor Xin Gao and Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf.

An elite group of talented undergraduate students and math Olympians from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman University, King Khalid University, Taif University, Taibah University and Hail University visited KAUST for an intensive study of applied mathematics topics.

Siqing Hou, a Master's student under the supervision of Associate Professor Xin Gao, successfully defended his thesis.

​CBRC was awarded three Center Partnership Funds by the KAUST Office of Sponsored Research on April 1, 2018.​

Abdullah Khamis has had quite an impressive career so far. After graduating with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from KAUST under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Bajic and Associate Professor Xin Gao, he now works as the Director of Data Science in the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) of the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia.

CBRC was awarded three Center Partnership Funds by the KAUST Office of Sponsored Research on April 1, 2018.

A new malaria metabolic model may uncover better ways to treat a highly deadly disease.

Janet Kelso, head of the bioinformatics research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Sudhir Kumar, Laura H. Carnell professor and director of the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine at Temple University, discussed big data analyses in evolutionary biology during a KAUST Facebook Live interview.

The Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) hosted a delegation of directors, managers and professors from the Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on March 25-28, 2018. The purpose of their visit was to hold a joint workshop entitled "Big Data in Biodiversity and Health", as well as to explore possible research collaborations.

Researchers from five research groups in the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) presented their work at the Third National Academic Talent Program (NATDP) Symposium on March 22, 2018.