Computational biology thesis topic suggestions

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Hey, I'm working on some research on the most impactful areas within ML-aided drug and vaccine discovery. I can share that with you once I'm done.

I have some biosecurity-related ideas:

You could look into genetic engineering attribution! There were a bunch of EA authors on the The biosecurity benefits of genetic engineering attribution, a useful background paper that came out two weeks ago. altLabs just finished running a data science contest on this problem using AddGene data. They got great results on that contest, so I think now the problem is around how to extend it beyond the AddGene database, how to

There's a ton of interesting work happening in metagenomics for infectious disease surveillance and modelling. I'm no expert in this, but Nextstrain and IDSeq both seem like useful projects.

You could also look into the projects being pursued under IARPA's FunGCAT (can we tell if DNA encodes for something dangerous) and FELIX (can we detect whether an organism was engineered) programs, and look for interesting ways to complement and build upon those projects / publications?

Hi! I just took a computational genetics class and I'm really interested in this topic, so I'm glad you're excited to use compgen for social good!

How about using computational methods to study environmental DNA (eDNA)?