The Wall Lab Blog
Blogs
skateboarding
By dennis on April 14th, 2009recently CBMI's videographer, Kerry Foley, captured some righteous skating on film. Check it out.
New NLP tools
By dennis on April 3rd, 2009Biomedical informatics researchers at Mayo Clinic and IBM today launched a Web site for the newly founded Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium. The consortium is establishing the open-source space to promote past and current development efforts, including participation in information extraction from electronic medical records.
exponential times
By dennis on April 1st, 2009An impressive, alarming, exciting video about the state of things past, present and future.
check it out here .
No Small Change for the Health Information Economy
By dennis on March 31st, 2009Kohane and Mandl discuss the implications of the economic stimulus package on health care. Read it here .
how to publish in nature
By dennis on March 30th, 2009recently the Rzhetsky lab published a recipe for publishing high impact research
Translational Bioinformatics: year in review
By dennis on March 26th, 2009At the recent AMIA summit on Translational Bioinformatics, Russ Altman delivered a fantastic year in review . Check it out.
hidden heritability
By dennis on March 26th, 2009professional photographer for The Scientist
By dennis on March 26th, 2009A professional photographer Leah Fasten is coming to the Wall lab today to take pictures for an upcoming article in The Scientist Magazine. More soon...
Editor-in-Chief Evolutionary Bioinformatics
By dennis on March 16th, 2009DP Wall is appointed editor-in-chief of Evolutionary Bioinformatics, an open access, peer reviewed electronic journal that covers computational evolutionary biology and evolutionary bioinformatics.
Spooning through the primordial soup of early implementation
By kris on February 19th, 2009Call me Ishmael.
About our Lab
Our lab is interested in computational approaches to understanding biological function and the genetic basis of diseases. Our work falls into three interrelated aims.
- Predicting functional network organization of the cell
- Network scale analysis of complex multigenic disorders
- Autworks: decoding the genotype-phenotype map for Autism
Recent blog posts
- mining the text to quicken autism research
- new species of moth discovered in Hawaii
- Dr. Dennis Wall in Children's Hospital News
- MSU national autism study
- Dennis Wall is now a member of Faculty of 1000
- Call for Papers -- Evolutionary Bioinformatics
- connecting diseases through the phenotyic disease network
- Dennis Wall is a "scientist to watch"
- autistic children express themselves in 3D with assistance from Google
- number of genome-wide association studies rising fast
Science News - Biology and Nature
- Opposites attract: Monkeys choose mating partners with different genes
- Plasma levels of GGT and ALB and their genetic correlations with cardiovascular risk factors
- Early protein processes crucial to formation and layering of myelin membrane
- Atomic-level snapshot catches protein motor in action
- A sticky solution for identifying effective probiotics
- Report shows dramatic decline in Siberian tigers
- Rocket science leads to new whale discovery
- Polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids boost the birth of new neurons
- A year after discovery, Congo's 'mother lode' of gorillas remains vulnerable
- Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed