A self-learning algorithm may help predict how genetic disease occurs

Oluwatosin Oluwadare, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, is seeking to answer a fundamental question in genome science: how the physical structure of a chromosome affects genetic function, from gene expression to DNA replication and incidence of genetic disease. To do so, Oluwadare’s research group created an entirely new way of predicting chromosome structure — one that is faster and more accurate than nearly all current methods.