Center for Computational Biology

Rasmus Nielsen, Professor of Statistics and Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the 2026 Balzan Prize for Molecular Evolution alongside Ziheng Yang of University College London. The prize recognizes their pioneering and complementary contributions to molecular evolution,...Read more about Rasmus Nielsen Receives 2026 Balzan Prize for Molecular Evolution

Yun Song, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Statistics, and Director of the Center for Computational Biology at UC Berkeley, led a team of researchers in developing GPN-Star, a new genomic language model that uses evolutionary patterns across species to identify...Read more about Yun Song and Collaborators Develop AI Model to Unlock Secrets of the Human Genome

Priya Moorjani, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, and her team have developed a new computational method that helps identify DNA inheritance from unknown ancient human populations using present-day human genomes. Called TRACE (TRacking Archaic Contributions via ARG Estimation),...Read more about Priya Moorjani Leads New Computational Method Tracing 'Ghost' Ancestors in Human DNA