​The student will work on combining methods from Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (formal logics, rule-based systems) with machine learning and statistical approaches to data mining, and apply these methods to biomedical datasets. Major application areas include understanding molecular mechanisms underlying traits, phenotypes, and disease, and identifying ways to perturb biological systems through bioactive compounds (drugs).​

​The postdoctoral researcher will work on the development and application of Artificial Intelligence methods in bioinformatics and computational biology, with a particular focus on combining symbolic AI approaches (e.g., ontologies, knowledge graphs, rule-based systems) with machine learning methods.​​​

Students from the Life Sciences Program of AlFaisal University visited the CBRC labs recently. Representatives from the Comparative Genomics and Genetics Lab, Structural Biology and Engineering Lab and Microbial Technology Group Lab explained their work and introduced their various facilities.

Professor Akira Kinjo, from the Institute for Protein Research at Osaka University recently gave a talk titled, "Cooperative 'folding transition' in the sequence space facilitates function-driven evolution of protein families".

Professor Robert Hoehndorf was a guest speaker at the Science to Watch screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He gave a presentation about artificial intelligence and its implications in the movie.

Professor Yunxin Fu from the School of Public Health of the University of Texas at Houston recently gave a seminar titled "Inference on the Distribution of Germline Mutations".

​Professor Robert Hoehndorf was a guest speaker at the Science to Watch screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He gave a presentation about artificial intelligence and its implications in the movie.

​Professor Zhi Liu, from the University of Macau, gave a talked titled, "Testing for Equality if Distributions Using Empirical Likelihood Approach".

​​​​Professor Zoran Obradovic, from Temple University, gave a talk titled, "Structured Regressions in Large Temporal Networks" on October 25.

That is not a Messenger troll, but the actual conversation between two chatbots by the Facebook AI Research (FAIR). The two robots, Bob and Alice, were thought the art of negotiation apples and books. They had been instructed to work out how to negotiate between themselves and improve their bartering as they went along. But, after leaving the pair alone, they start talking in this uncompressible but yet effective vocabulary. 

Microbes are dispersed widely over the oceans with islands acting as stepping-stones to help transport of land-based organisms.

Professor Carlos Duarte is the director of the Red Sea Research Center, a professor of marine science and the Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology. ​His research focuses on understanding the impacts of global change in marine ecosystems, addressing all components from microbes to megafauna. His research involves two nodes of separate but complementary interests: one on the metabolic and elemental budgets of marine ecosystems and their connectivity in space, and the other on the stability and dynamics of marine habitats and the maintenance of biodiversity, including demographics, space occupation and gene flow. His CBRC engagement is mainly focused on metagenomics.

​Ph.D. student Maxat Kulmanov's paper, "DeepGO: predicting protein functions from sequence and interactions using a deep ontology-aware classifier" was recently published in Bioinformatics.

Sifting through huge amounts of data may bring a better understanding of whale shark social structures, protein targets for drug therapies and disease-causing genes.