Aranyak Goswami Talks Computational Biology and AI in Latest Short Talks From the Hill

Artificial intelligence is becoming more commonplace these days with tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot. But there is a field of science called bioinformatics that takes AI and machine learning to a whole new level. Bioinformatics, also known as computational biology, links biological data with information storage, distribution and analysis to support many scientific research areas.

The December Short Talks from the Hill features Aranyak Goswami, a tenure track assistant professor in bioinformatic computational biology with the U of A System Division of Agriculture. Goswami joined the division last year after working in human-focused medical research at Yale and Stanford Universities. His work straddles U of A's Poultry Science and Animal Science departments, where he also has an appointment, as well as the Experiment Station Center for Agricultural Data Analytics.

"If you know about the Human Genome Project, which happened in the early 2000s, that was actually the birth of modern bioinformatics," Goswami explains in the podcast, "because we have these sequences of genes and—to put it in a very layman's terms—we got hundreds and thousands of genes from humans. Actually, 40,000 of the coding genes, to be precise. And that sequence was done with the help of computational approaches. And that gave rise to this modern field of bioinformatics."

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