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Our researchers develop bespoke, open-access software packages to better understand biological processes.

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  1. aLENS

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    Simulates microtubule assemblies with motor proteins using Monte Carlo dynamics, constrained collision handling, and massive parallelization.
  2. DeepSEA

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    Uses deep learning to predict chromatin effects of DNA variants, including TF binding, DNase sensitivity, and histone marks across cell types.
  3. FNTM

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    Uses tissue-specific gold standards to build functional gene networks, prioritizing relevant data and enabling cross-tissue gene interaction comparisons.
  4. GIANT

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    Builds tissue-specific gene networks, enables cross-tissue functional comparison, and reprioritizes GWAS signals to identify disease-associated genes.
  5. humanbase

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    Uses machine learning on large genomic datasets to discover new biological gene associations beyond existing literature knowledge.
  6. IMP 2.0

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    Analyzes experimental results using cross-species gene networks to reveal functions and guide new experiments identifying gene–pathway roles.
  7. KNNimpute

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    Imputes missing microarray data using k-nearest neighbors, shown to perform well compared to other missing-value estimation methods.
  8. Masala

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    C++ macromolecular modeling libraries aiming to replace Rosetta, leveraging modern CPUs/GPUs and quantum hardware for NP-hard optimization tasks.
  9. MuNDy

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    A C++ infrastructure for building scalable, biologically grounded microscale multibody dynamics software.
  10. Nano-Dissection

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    Performs in silico nano-dissection to identify cell-lineage–specific genes using functional genomics data from tissue samples.
  11. PFI

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    Probability Flow Inference (PFI) is a framework for inferring gene-regulatory dynamics from time-stamped cross-sectional omics data, where cells are measured destructively and cannot be tracked …
  12. Rosetta Commons

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    Protein modeling and design software extended to support noncanonical amino acids, enabling prediction and design of mixed-chirality peptide macrocycles.
  13. SEEK

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    Gene co-expression search engine that ranks genes and datasets from large expression compendia using multi-gene queries and cross-platform analysis.
  14. SkellySim

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    Scalable simulation package for cellular components using parallel computing and fast hydrodynamic methods for filaments, motors, and rigid bodies.
  15. Sleipnir

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    C++ library for fast genomic data integration, mining, and ML across large datasets, with tools for microarrays and other biological data types.
  16. STKFMM

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    Fast boundary integral kernels for Laplace and Stokes equations using optimized fast multipole methods and AVX2 SIMD acceleration.
  17. URSA(HD)

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    Identifies tissue and disease signatures from gene expression data using large-scale profiles, enabling molecular analysis of submitted samples.

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