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Welcome to the Istrail Laboratory!

The Istrail Lab is a computational biology research group in the Department of Computer Science and Center for Computational Molecular Biology at Brown University under the direction of Professor Sorin Istrail. Our focus is on the development of theory and algorithms for regulatory genomics, sequence analysis, population genomics, protein folding and bioinformatics workflows.

News and Research Highlights

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  • Posted on Sunday, May 6, 2012

    The CYRENE Project

    The cis-Browser (shown) and cis-Lexicon are the two core components of the CYRENE project focused on unraveling the cis-regulatory code.

  • Posted on Sunday, May 6, 2012

    The DELISHUS Algorithms

    DELISHUS is an algorithmic framework that implements three highly efficient algorithms for inferring recurrent deletions in SNP data.

  • Posted on Sunday, May 6, 2012

    The HapCompass Algorithm

    HAPCOMPASS is a novel haplotype assembly algorithm for NGS data.

  • The CYRENE Project

  • DELISHUS

  • HapCompass

Sorin Istrail
Sorin Istrail

Research funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Sorin Istrail is the Julie Nguyen Brown Professor of Computational and Mathematical Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. He founded the Istrail Laboratory in 2006 with the goal of establishing a group of students and post-docs solving cutting-edge computational biology problems.