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Mei Du

As a bioinformatician, I draw from computer science and statistics to investigate large biological datasets, particularly genomic, and develop analysis methods. DNA or another data type is extracted from biological material, processed, and read – “sequenced” – by a sequencing machine. The aim is to observe what and how much genes are being expressed, to see if there is an important difference between, say, a healthy patient and a patient with a particular disease. This can hopefully lead to improvements and developments of diagnostic measures, drug targets, and cures.

Research keyword: DNA data diva

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