News

February 2, 2024
EveryCure has partnered with the Koslicki Lab and received a $48.3M grant from ARPA-H to find new uses for FDA-approved drugs. More info at: https://everycure.org/every-cure-to-receive-48-3m-from-arpa-h-to-develop-ai-driven-platform-to-revolutionize-future-of-drug-development-and-repurposing/

June 25, 2024
Congratulations to Shaopeng for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

July 1, 2024
Dr. Koslicki recieved tenure (again), now in the departments of computer science and biology!

June 10, 2024
Congratulations to Chunyu for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

January 1, 2024
The NIH has awarded our team continued funding for the Biomedical Data Translator project. This $1.8M award will continue to support development work on our automated reasoning agent called ARAX.

August 15, 2023
Dr. Koslicki has added an additional role as director of the Bioinformatics and Genomics (BG) program at Penn State

January 1, 2023
The NIH has awarded our team continued funding for the Biomedical Data Translator project. This $1.79M award will continue to support development work on our automated reasoning agent called ARAX."

February 2, 2022
The NIH has awarded our team continued funding for the Biomedical Data Translator project. This $1.1M award will continue to support development work on our automated reasoning agent called ARAX.

January 17, 2022
Mahmudur has another preprint out! Lightweight compositional analysis of metagenomes with FracMinHash and minimum metagenome covers, accessible via the bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.475838v2

January 14, 2022
Mahmudur has a new preprint out! Debiasing FracMinHash and deriving confidence intervals for mutation rates across a wide range of evolutionary distances, accessible via the bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.475870v2

January 17, 2022
David has a new preprint out! The minimizer Jaccard estimator is biased and inconsistent, accessible via the bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.14.476226v1

January 28, 2022
Wei Wei has a new preprint out! Using the UniFrac metric on Whole Genome Shotgun data, accessible via the bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.17.476629v2

Februrary 13, 2022
Shaopeng has a new preprint out! CMash: fast, multi-resolution estimation of k-mer-based Jaccard and containment indices, accessible via the bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.06.471436v2

September 3, 2021
Wei Wei is giving a talk titled 'Using the UniFrac metric on whole genome shotgun data' at the Microbiome Center weekly meeting at 11am in Huck Life Sciences Bld 100

August 31, 2021
Our paper on the statistics of k-mers from a sequence undergoing a simple mutation process was presented at RECOMB 2021!

September 24, 2020
Dr. Koslicki was elected as a Penn State Microbiome Center executive committee member. Details at: https://news.psu.edu/story/632974/2020/09/24/academics/penn-state-microbiome-center-elects-new-executive-committee