Bakar Institute

Advancing computational health sciences in research, practice and education — in support of
Precision Medicine for all
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

UCSF Awarded $67.5 Million to Develop New Antiviral Therapies
UCSF Awarded $67.5 Million to Develop New Antiviral Therapies
Source: UCSF

BCHSI Faculty, Andrej Sali, Brian Shoichet, Michael Keiser, are investigators for this QBI Coronavirus Research Group.

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UCSF Information Commons Day
Informations Commons Day at UCSF
Source: Bakar Institute

As researchers who depend on data, join us on Monday, May 9 to learn how to deepen your research inquiry.

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UCSF Researchers Use Gene Expression Data to Map Cell Types in the CNS
UCSF Researchers Use Gene Expression Data to Map Cell Types in the CNS
Source: Bakar Institute

Ashish Raj co-led the development of a computational pipeline, Matrix Inversion and Subset Selection.

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Single-Cell Seq Study Uncovers Blood Cell Type Features for Lupus
Single-Cell Seq Study Uncovers Blood Cell Type Features for Lupus
Source: Science

Jimmie Ye, et al, published in Science on how they deployed mux-seq to profile 1.2M immune cells for lupus.

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