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

High Honors for Outstanding Science Contributions
Source: UCSF
Atul Butte is named 2022 fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Big Little Lives
Source: UCSF Magazine
Bakar faculty Marina Sirota et al microbiome work highlighted in the context of pregnancy outcomes.
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Travel time to abortion facilities grew significantly after Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
Source: JAMA
Bakar faculty, senior author Yulin Hswen publishes on abortion access post: Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Decision.
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Win NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Grant
Source: UCSF SOM
Bakar faculty Hani Goodarzi receives the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award.
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