Projects

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming our society. Machine learning models will soon be in every digital system we use. For this reason, there is an urgent need for methods and software that allows for development of state-of-the art ML models while protecting the integrity of data owners . In this project we work on algorithms, scalable implementations, and applications of ...
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Biochemical reaction networks represent complex cellular regulatory mechanisms. These networks are typically analyzed using discrete stochastic simulation models. The models typically involve numerous reactions involving a large number of chemical species, governed by highly uncertain parameters. Likelihood-free parameter inference Given existing data pertaining to a biochemical reaction network, one is often interested in inferring the values of the model parameters ...
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The HASTE project, a SSF-funded project on computational science and big data, takes a holistic approach to new, intelligent ways of processing and managing very large amounts of microscopy images to leverage the imminent explosion of image data from modern experimental setups in the biosciences. One central idea is to represent datasets as intelligently formed and maintained information hierarchies, and ...
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In multicellular systems, cells of different types interact in various ways, both mechanically and chemically, to regulate complex processes. There is a large computational gap between detailed models of sub-cellular, molecular processes in single cells, and models of multicellular systems comprising of large numbers of interacting cells such as bacterial colonies, tissue and tumors. In the lab we seek to ...
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StochSS is an integrated development environment (IDE) for discrete stochastic biochemical simulations. Users make use of a graphical user interface (GUI) to define their problem, including its domain (geometry, volume), molecular interactions (stoichiometry, rate constants), and simulation goals (single trajectory, histogram, probabilities of rare events). The platform transparently executes model workflows using local resources (laptops, workstations) and public, private or ...
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Life spans in size from small organisms consisting of single cells to complex organisms built up of billions of cells. Even the single-cell organisms are challenging to fully understand and study—their function is dependent on a rich set of reaction networks. Important molecules inside a cell may exist in only a few copies, and that makes them exceedingly difficult and ...
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