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Nathan Sheffield

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Computational Biologist. Associate Professor of Genome Sciences. https://databio.org/

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Meet COBI - Virtual Open House | UVA Computational Biology PhD Join our virtual open house sessions to meet faculty, students, and administrators from the UVA Computational Biology PhD program.

I'm hosting a virtual open house today at 2-3pm Eastern Time -- Drop in if you're interested in hearing about getting a PhD in Computational Biology at UVA. compbio.med.virginia.edu/meet-cobi/

07.11.2025 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Meet COBI - Virtual Open House | UVA Computational Biology PhD Join our virtual open house sessions to meet faculty, students, and administrators from the UVA Computational Biology PhD program.

Interested in learning about doing a PhD in computational biology? Join us for open office hours tomorrow at 11am Eastern. compbio.med.virginia.edu/meet-cobi/

20.10.2025 22:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Taming the reference genome jungle: the refget sequence collection standard https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680641v1

07.10.2025 04:33 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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UVA Computational Biology UVA's PhD Program in Computational Biology combines AI, data science, and biology to prepare the next generation of scientists. 100% funded positions with world-class faculty.

We launched a new website for our new PhD program in computational biology at UVA. Visit: compbio.med.virginia.edu

01.10.2025 21:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01892-7

Very happy w/ our new work, excellently conceived & led by Judith Kribelbauer (new Faculty at USC starting Jan 2025!), uncovering a 'new' TF class: 'context TFs' that boost local enhancer activity and mediate enhancer-enhancer communication, forming ‘chromatin modules’. For details, t.co/Nk6DBD4CGk

13.11.2024 08:27 — 👍 30    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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BEDMS: A metadata standardizer for genomic region attributes High-throughput sequencing technologies have generated vast omics data annotating genomic regions. A challenge arises in integrating this data because the associated metadata does not follow a uniform...

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13.11.2024 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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