Computational Biology & AI
Donnelly Centre Research Themes
We are making advances in the rapidly evolving fields of computational biology and artificial intelligence to bring new dimensions to studying cellular and molecular biology. Our faculty are at the forefront of large-scale and high-throughput analysis of genomic data for drug discovery.
Computational Biology & AI News
Jan 22, 2025
A study co-led by University of Toronto researchers and Insilico Medicine has demonstrated for the first time the potential of quantum computing and artificial intelligence to transform the drug discovery pipeline.
Oct 10, 2024
On the weekend of September 27-29, the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research hosted scientists from the Greater Toronto Area and beyond for the city’s first hackathon focused on developing solutions in bioinformatics.
Jul 5, 2024
The Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research welcomes new Assistant Professor Aleksandrina Goeva, who will be integrating mathematics and computational biology to develop new approaches to studying disease and sharing her statistical and machine learning expertise to help other researchers re-envision problem-solving.
Jun 27, 2024
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a deep-learning model, called PepFlow, that can predict all possible shapes of peptides – chains of amino acids that are shorter than proteins, but perform similar biological functions.