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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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Jan 1, 2020
pySeqRNA
Today, massive amounts of data are generated by Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies. In recent years, many algorithms, statistical methods, and software tools have been developed to perform the
individual analysis steps of various NGS applications.
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Dec 1, 2019
deepHPI: A host-pathogen interactome tool
Models to predict HPI were generated by the combination of features and machine learning methods. The best models from this
benchmark were implement in the DeepHPI webserver
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July 1, 2019
ranchSATdb
A database on the Bos taurus.
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April 1, 2019
LegumeSSRdb
Legumes are the second most essential group of crops with around ~700 genera and ~19,000 known Legume species in the world.
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Jan 1, 2019
citSATdb
The Citrus genus and its associated genera (Poncirus, Microcitrus, Fourtunella and Eremocitrus) are
part of Aurantioideae subfamily of Rutaceae family,
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.