Weill Institute faculty member, Haiyuan Yu, is part of the Computational Biology department.

Broadly speaking, computational biology is the application of computer science, statistics, and mathematics to problems in biology. Computational biology spans a wide range of fields within biology, including genomics/genetics, biophysics, cell biology, biochemistry, and evolution. Likewise, it makes use of tools and techniques from many different quantitative fields, including algorithm design, machine learning, Bayesian and frequentist statistics, and statistical physics.

Our major research strengths in Computational Biology are in comparative, evolutionary, and population genomics. Specific problems of interest include the detection of genomic regions underlying complex traits, the detection of positive selection, the evolutionary genomics of plant and animal domestication, the discovery of new human genes, and the identification and characterization of functional noncoding elements in mammals. Our faculty are key members of a strong, active community at Cornell in comparative, evolutionary, and population genomics that spans departments and colleges.

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