Center for Computational Biology

Simons Foundation

The Center for Computational Biology develops new and innovative methods of examining data in the biological sciences whose scale and complexity have historically resisted analysis.

CCB’s mission is to develop modeling tools and theory for understanding biological processes and to create computational frameworks that will enable the analysis of the large, complex data sets being generated by new experimental technologies.

Groups

Biophysical Modeling The Biophysical Modeling group focuses on the modeling and simulation of complex systems that arise in biology and soft condensed matter physics. Read More

Genomics An immensely complex molecular network of interactions forms the foundation of human biology and disease. Genomic approaches provide a particularly illuminating window to biological systems, and when combined with advanced analysis allow us to learn and model this complexity. Read More

Neuroscience Our goal is to understand how the brain analyzes large and complex datasets streamed by sensory organs in order to aid efforts at building artificial neural systems and treating mental illness. Read More

Systems Biology At the Systems Biology group, we are developing new methods to learn the networks that run life’s program. Read More

News & Announcements

September 03, 2019

The Stormy Fluid Dynamics of the Living Cell (Physics Today)

September 02, 2019

Mystery Solved About the Machines That Move Your Genes By Thomas Sumner

July 08, 2019

Building a Network That Learns Like We Do

Featured Events

November 2019

Event
CCB Colloquia Schedule

Multiple dates
All speakers are scheduled from 11:30-12:30pm unless otherwise noted.

Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium

December 2019

Event
CCB Colloquia Schedule

Multiple dates
All speakers are scheduled from 11:30-12:30pm unless otherwise noted.

Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium

Conference
Universality: Turbulence Across Vast Scales

December 2-6, 2019
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

162 5th Avenue
2nd Floor Auditorium

Upcoming Events

October 2019

21 Mon
- Lecture 10:00 - 11:15 AM
  Systems Biology Group Meeting
- Meeting 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Biophysical Modeling Group Meeting
22 Tue
- Seminar 1:15 - 2:15 PM
  Brown Bag Seminar
24 Thu
- Meeting 1:00 - 2:15 PM
  Neuroscience Group Meeting
28 Mon
- Meeting 10:00 - 11:15 AM
  Systems Biology Group Meeting
- Meeting 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Biophysical Modeling Group Meeting
29 Tue
- Meeting 12:00 - 2:30 PM
  Genomics Group Meeting
31 Thu
- Meeting 1:00 - 2:15 PM
  Neuroscience Group Meeting

November 2019

04 Mon
- Meeting 10:00 - 11:15 AM
  Systems Biology Group Meeting
- Meeting 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Biophysical Modeling Group Meeting

Research Highlights

September 14, 2019

A scalable computational platform for Stokes suspensions

W. Yan, E. Corona, D. Malhotra, S. Veerapaneni, M. Shelley

We describe a computational framework for simulating suspensions of rigid particles in Newtonian Stokes flow. One central building block is…

arXiv:1909.06623

September 9, 2019

The odd free surface flows of a colloidal chiral fluid

V. Soni, E.S. Bililign, S. Magkiriadou, S. Sacanna, M. Shelley, W. Irvine

In simple fluids, such as water, invariance under parity and time-reversal symmetry imposes that the rotation of constituent ‘atoms’ is…

Nature Physics

September 2, 2019

Self-straining of actively crosslinked microtubule networks

S. Fürthauer, B. Lemma, P. J. Foster, S. C. Ems-McClung, C.-H. Yu, C. E. Walczak, Z. Dogi, D. Needleman, M. Shelley

Cytoskeletal networks are foundational examples of active matter and central to self-organized structures in the cell. In vivo, these networks…

Nature Physics

Director

Michael Shelley, Ph.D.

Director, CCB

Michael Shelley joined the Simons Foundation in 2016 to work on the modeling and simulation of complex systems arising in physics and biology.

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