From the encoding of heritable information in DNA to empowering precision biomedicine to enabling cutting-edge discoveries in the marine sciences, the students and faculty of the BiRG lab use the tools of machine learning and biologically-inspired algorithms to explore a broad range of scientific questions. We specialize in solving data intensive problems in the life sciences. Ongoing projects span the broad areas of projects bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, data science, computational biology, marine biology, organismal biology, and molecular evolution.