Tony Capra
Department of Biological Sciences
Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI)
Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (VGI)
Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology (CSB)
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Humans differ from one another and our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, in a wide range of traits, including our susceptibility to many diseases. We model the evolutionary processes that have produced these novel traits and develop algorithms that compare genomes to predict the functional relevance of specific genetic differences between individuals and species.
Humans differ from one another and our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, in a wide range of traits, including our susceptibility to many diseases. We model the evolutionary processes that have produced these novel traits and develop algorithms that compare genomes to predict the functional relevance of specific genetic differences between individuals and species.
Keywords: Computational Biology , Human Evolution , Machine Learning , Structural Biology , Personalized Medicine , Gene Regulation
Research Area: Structural Biology , Computational and Systems Biology , Gene Regulation , Genomics , Evolution