Welcome to my homepage. I am a Professor in Bioinformatics at the Computational Biology Unit and the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen.
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Preprint by Ammar
Ammar has posted a preprint of his paper “rfPhen2Gen: A machine learning based association study of brain imaging phenotypes to genotypes” on arXiv. In this paper, Ammar evaluated random forest regression as a method to identify biologically relevant associations by learning models to predict SNPs from imaging features, using data for 518,484 SNPs and 56 …
Postdoc position available
A postdoc position is available in my group on the NeuroConvergence project in collaboration with Jan Haavik and colleagues at the Neurotargeting group. In the NeuroConvergence project, we will use a range of machine learning and causal inference methods on unique large-scale genetic and functional genomic datasets and chemical libraries to identify novel druggable target …
Welcome Gutama!
A warm welcome to Gutama Ibrahim who joins the group as a PhD student. Gutama has a master in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the University of Tromsø and he will work on the “Intelligent systems for disease risk prediction” project.