Our Focus

Modern-day biology is a data-driven field, thanks largely to the advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies.

The Bioinformatics Lab at De La Salle University brings together faculty members and students interested in deploying the arsenal of computer science and computer engineering to solve problems in computational biology.

We work on algorithms and software for high-throughput sequencing data analysis, bioinformatics for diseases and epidemics, computer architecture for bioinformatics algorithms, and similar topics that bridge computer science and biology.

See some of our projects, publications, and software.



Our Collaborators

Given the interdisciplinary nature of our research, we collaborate with several research groups, including:

  • Practical Genomics Lab, Center for Natural Sciences and Environmental Research, De La Salle University (CENSER, DLSU)
  • Systems and Computational Biology Unit, CENSER, DLSU
  • Translational Medicine Unit, CENSER, DLSU
  • Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, the University of Tokyo
  • International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
  • National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila (NIH, UP Manila)
  • Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC)


Our Funders

Our present and past projects have been funded by:

  • Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD)
  • Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD)
  • East Asia Science and Innovation Area Joint Research Program (e-Asia JRP)
  • De La Salle University Research Grants and Management Office (DLSU RGMO)


Join Us

We are always looking for energetic, driven, and curious students to join us.


View our projects on GitHub

News & Events

Oct 1, 2024

Arya Kaul, Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School, talks to the lab about his work on rapid detection of deletion-born fusion genes across all sequenced bacteria.

Oct 1, 2024

Jiaan presents our work on metagenomic profiling of hospital wastewater at the 24th Annual Symposium of the Philippine Network of Microbial Culture Collections.

Aug 26, 2024

Our new preprint on the application of structure-aware protein language models to phage-host interaction prediction has been posted on bioRxiv.

July 15, 2024

Anish speaks at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Philippine Academy of Microbiology.

July 10, 2024

Two interns from the Philippine Science High School System completed their internship at the lab.

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