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Feb 3, 2021
New Undergrad Student Joined: Kolton Hauck
Kolton is a Biological Engineering major and is working on a minor in Computer Science. He wants to use computers to solve modern-day
biological problems.
He enjoys eating, sleeping and working out.
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Jan 11-15, 2020
Naveen presents at International Plant Animal Genome Conference
Naveen Duhan, a PhD student from our lab, attended the International Plant Animal Genome Conference in San Diego. He
presented a poster on citSatdb and Greeningdb, and presented an oral talk on citSatdb.
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Mar 21, 2020
New HPC Admin: Shelby McCowan
Shelby is a Biochemistry major who aspires to go into software engineering. He has worked with mobile apps, websites
(including the front and back end), and desktop applications. He is a percussionist in his spare time.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.