Medical Readiness Systems Biology

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The Medical Readiness Systems Biology (MRSB) branch aims to apply robust and precise molecular-based solutions for military-relevant health performance, resilience and readiness.  MRSB is a disease-agnostic program that utilizes high-throughput, multi-omics platforms supported by a suite of cutting edge, targeted assay tools and AI-driven analytical capabilities to identify diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers, and generate a knowledge base about biological mechanisms and personalized care. MRSB is committed to developing a seamless, integrative module enabling to interrogate genome-to-phenome landscape to inform medical interventions and develop products to improve Warfighter health, performance, resilience, and readiness. 

MRSB applies its core competencies into several areas of interest including post-traumatic stress disorder and comorbidities, coagulopathy, brain injury, musculoskeletal atrophy, space biology, pain management, infectious diseases, sepsis, toxicology, radiobiology and many more.  

 

Research Areas

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Multi-omics Platform

Our multi-omics platform facilitates genomic, transcriptomic, metagenomics, epigenomics, proteomic and metabolomic investigations, bolstered by a vast and constantly growing collection of tools and technologies. Our resources include automated biomolecule extraction tool, next-generation sequencing platforms, microarrays, pyrosequencing, and a spectrum of assay validation platforms.

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Bioinformatics and Statistics

A number of cutting-edge statistical analysis suites and mining platforms are developed in-house for the back stream refinement and validation of the acquired data. A central data warehouse is leveraged to integrate intramural and extramural data across the enterprise and perform analyses in order to convert knowledge to discovery.

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Software and Web Applications

We develop software and web applications to facilitate analysis and visualization of complex systems biology projects, including PanoromiX, a tool to explore time-series network models online with full support of interactive animation functionalities, and Functional Heatmap, a tool to analyze time-series data for heatmap-based visualization, pathway analysis and comparison to different cohorts.

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