Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competitions Archives

Human Health

PathOGiST: Calibrated multi-criterion genomic analysis for public heal...

Public health agencies protect the population from infectious diseases by monitoring disease-causing agents (pathogens) and intervening in disease outbreaks. Without these concerte...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

OnTarget: Big Data Informed Software for the Design of cis-Regulatory ...

All cells of the human body have the same DNA sequences (genes) that “code” for the body’s entire diversity of cell types, from blood to brain, liver, muscle and ...

May 25, 2021

Data and Technology

AnnoVis- Annotation and visualization of de novo genome and transcript...

Establishing a fundamental understanding of the specific molecular biology of a species begins with reconstructing its genome (DNA) and transcriptome (RNA). Assembling the large vo...

May 25, 2021

Environment

Global scale metabolic pathway reconstruction from environmental genom...

We may think it’s all about us humans, but for more than 3.5 billion years, microorganisms have been the dominant form of life on earth. Over the past decade, high-throughput...

May 25, 2021

Data and Technology

Bioinformatics Tools to Enable Federated, Real Time Genomic Epidemiolo...

Infectious diseases such as influenza, Ebola, Listeriosis and Salmonellosis, as well as other pathogens, can devastate both animal and human lives, damage economies and paralyze tr...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Proteogenomics-Improved and -Guided Quantification Pipeline (PIGQpipe)...

Measuring proteins in biofluids such as urine or blood is critical for diagnosing, treating and monitoring disease in humans. Currently researchers and clinicians worldwide use mas...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Development and implementation of bioinformatic tools for HIV and HCV ...

In the developed world, where epidemics are well managed, it is becoming increasingly difficult to identify remaining pockets of ongoing HIV and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) transmissio...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Machine learning methods to predict drug resistance in pathogenic bact...

Treatment options for people infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria today are limited and may become even more so over time. The risk of a post-antibiotic era, in which even m...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Illuminating the dark matter of the metabolome with convolutional neur...

The human body contains hundreds of thousands of naturally occurring chemicals, and is exposed to hundreds of thousands more during daily life. These chemicals, called metabolites,...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Automated analysis of big flow cytometry data...

Flow cytometry (FCM) is a technique used to detect and measure physical and chemical characteristics of a population of cells or particles. It is commonly used for cancer dia...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Genomic Epidemiology Application Ontology (GenEpiO)...

Infectious disease outbreaks have significant impacts on human health, agri-food production, animal health and the economy. Ineffective public health responses can result in outbre...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

New bioinformatics for new sequencing technologies: Genome characteriz...

Over the last decade, technology advances have made DNA sequencing a routine and cost- effective method in many fields of life sciences research. The dominant technology toda...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Measuring and modeling tumour evolution from next generation sequencin...

Breast and ovarian cancers are significant causes of disease and death among North American women. Tumours in these cancers can acquire different mutations, resulting in cells that...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

A compressed sensing framework for identifying differentially expresse...

New technology provides fast and accurate ways to analyze RNAs (which act as messengers carrying instructions from DNA) that code protein in a tissue. While there are many potentia...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Tool for proteome-wide identification of regulatory switches...

Despite significant progress in diagnosis and treatment, cancer remains Canada’s leading cause of death. Although scientists have made major efforts in identifying mutations ...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Applied Bioinformatics of Cis-regulation for Disease Exploration (ABC4...

When people go to a doctor, they want to be treated for what ails them and they want to be treated in a way that is most appropriate for them. This is the ultimate goal, often call...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Computational interpretation of cancer genomes: Defining mutational la...

Tumours develop through the accumulation of mutations in DNA. Recent advances in high-throughput (next-generation) DNA sequencing allow researchers rapid identification of mutation...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

A Federated Bioinformatics Platform for Public Health Microbial Genomi...

Despite advances in medical, sanitary, and public health practices, communicable diseases remain a serious threat to the health and economies of Canadians and people worldwide. Who...

May 25, 2021

Human Health

Next Generation Bioinformatics for Clinical Genomics: using de novo as...

Substantial advancements in cancer care and healthcare economics can be realized through the development of genomics technologies to detect variations and mutations in DNA and RNA ...

May 25, 2021