Bakar Institute

Advancing computational health sciences in research, practice and education — in support of
Precision Medicine for all
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Building a foundation of faculty and knowledge assets in computational health sciences and bringing together a community of thinkers interested in this emerging field.

Featured Initiatives

Computational ProjectsInformation CommonsSPOKEWynton
The goal of the Computational Projects initiative is to provide a platform that connects investigators with project needs and individuals with the technical know-how to address those needs. Projects can be posted and explored based on specific technical skillsets. Learn more
Information Commons is a fast and easily searchable and accessible repository of all UCSF clinical data and models, and related basic science & population data, that enables UCSF research and discovery of new health insights underlying precision medicine, to improve patient and health care. Learn more
The Scalable Precision Medicine Oriented Knowledge Engine (SPOKE) is a knowledge network that represents information in the essential structure of biomedicine and human health for discovery. Learn more
Wynton is a large, shared storage and computing cluster underlying UCSF’s Research Computing Capability. Funded and administered cooperatively by UCSF campus IT, key research groups, and the Bakar Institute, it is available to all UCSF researchers, regardless of their ability to contribute funds to the system. Learn more

Of Current Interest

AI4All Summer Program
Source: Grace Holmes

Bakar Institute sponsors a successful summer Program whose aim is to provide exposure to Artificial Intelligence & Health Data Sciences to high school students who are underrepresented in this field.

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BCHSI faculty develops COVIDseeker
Source: UCSF

NIH funds Yulin Hswen and colleagues to develop a system allowing study participants to donate their Google location history to promote a safer reopening.

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NSF Funds SPOKE Knowledge Network Phase Two
Source: UCSF Precision Medicine

This Phase Two award will expand SPOKE’s capacity to do what the human brain cannot – to integrate vast amounts of biomedical information, across many different data types, and to extract new knowledge from correlations and patterns that connect data points.

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Current Opportunities
Source: Bakar Institute

See more about opportunities in computational health science with BCHSI at UCSF, and beyond.

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