May 6, 2022
Raghav Awarded Campbell Scientific Graduate Fellowship
Raghav Kataria is a PhD student in the KAABiL lab. He is currently working on pathogen-host protein-protein interactions using computational tools and various molecular biology techniques in his research in bioinformatics.
Raghav was recently awarded the "Campbell Scientific Graduate Fellowship", which is provided by "Apogee Instruments".
May 4, 2022
New HPC Admin: Colin Bernhardt
Colin is a Computer Engineering BS student who has recently started as the KAABiL HPC System Administrator.
He will help to ensure that the high-performance computer cluster at the KAABiL lab works properly.
He also helps maintain the website and helps install the software you can use on the HPC. If you are experiencing any problems with the site or the HPC, let him know.
May 25, 2021
New Undergrad Student Joined: Andrew Jouffray
Andrew is a computer science student and software developer. He currently works on developing a method to create datasets for deep learning image
recognition tasks, enabling robots to generate their own training data.
May 24, 2021
Kolton Receives URCO Grant
Student researcher Kolton Hauck is mentored by Rakesh Kaundal, assistant professor of bioinformatics in the PSC department,
and investigates protein-protein interactions (PPIs) that are necessary for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to gain access to host cells,
replicate and proliferate.
Mar 3, 2021
New PhD Student: David
David is a CS PhD student from Colombia. He worked full-time as a full-stack software developer for 6 years while finishing his
bachelor's degree in Software and Computer Engineering and got a MSc. degree in Computational Biology.
May 31, 2022
ProFeatX: A New Tool to Extract Protein Features
ProFeatX is a tool to help you extract protein features in a fast and efficient way. It contains 32 encodings to help facilitate this process.
By extracting these features, you can use them as input for machine learning methods.
Oct 1, 2022
HuCoVarIA
SARS-CoV-2, a betacoronavirus, and the pathogen that causes COVID-19, has impacted the world in a variety of ways.
April 1, 2022
TRustDB
TRustDB, a database for Triticum aestivum -Puccinia species protein-protein interactions, provides valuable information about the Puccinia species,
which includes various functional protein annotations
Jan 1, 2022
TritiKBdb
Here, we report the development of a comprehensive database and webserver, TritiKBdb, that implements various tools to study the protein-protein interactions in the
Triticum species-Tilletia indica pathosystem.
Dec 1, 2021
deepNEC
We propose deepNEC, a novel end-to-end feature selection and classification model training approach for nitrogen biochemical
network-related enzyme prediction.
November 4, 2021
USU Today
First International Heroes Night
Dr. Rakesh Kaundal has been selected for the 2021 International Faculty Recognition Award.
August 9, 2021
USU Today
NIH Funds USU Researchers' Work on Fathers' Nutrition and Children's Health
Dr. Kaundal is a Co-PI on a $1.56M research grant from the NIH.
April 6, 2021
USU Today
Uncovering Genes that Protect Alfalfa against Salinity Stress
Salt stress is an example of big data bringing immense benefits to plant science.
May 24, 2021
USU Today
Students Receive Grants to Conduct Undergraduate Research
Kolton Hauck is using big data to investigate diverse strands of SARS-CoV-2 virus.