The Program in Bioinformatics was founded at BU in 1999 and is recognized among the top research and graduate training bioinformatics programs in the US. It conducts highly interdisciplinary research, teaching, and training at the nexus of the medical, biological, and computational sciences.
A pioneer in the field, founded in 1999, BU’s program is well-established, well-respected, growing steadily, and developing ever more flexible opportunities.
CDS Assistant Professor Pawel Przytycki has been named a 2025 Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow for his groundbreaking research in computational genomics. His work bridges data science and biology to advance understanding of gene regulation and disease.
Jacquelyn Turcinovic, a notable 2024 alumna of the PhD Program in Bioinformatics, was awarded the Charles DeLisi Dissertation Award for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the Bioinformatics Program. The award is named after the founder of the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics and is made possible by a generous gift from DeLisi, Dean Emeritus of the […]
Read about CDS Prof. Brian Cleary's 'Scalable genetic screening for regulatory circuits using compressed Perturb-seq' paper published in Nature Biotechnology.
Commencement ceremony highlights the CDS Class of 2024’s history-making accomplishments at BU.
Learn about some of the upcoming computing and data sciences courses, the faculty leading the charge, and discover the inspiration behind each of these courses.
Pawel Przytycki, an Assistant Professor in Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University has been awarded a $50,000 cancer research grant, supported by both ACS and BU-BMC Cancer Center.
Leading the Way: In celebration of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) called on a computational biologist, data scientists, researchers, and innovators to share their professional journey, highlight an empowering experience, and describe ways they pay it forward.