App Helps Farmers Make the Most of their Corn Harvest
A new tool developed at UW-Madison could save farmers time and money during the fall feed-corn harvest and make for more content, productive cows year-round.
Tag: modeling
Modeling is the process of developing and testing mathematical representations of processes or events.
Modeling is foundational to much of the work done at WID, from modeling evolutionary and biological systems to power grids and fish habitats. Researchers at WID work on the fundamental algorithms and formulations that allow them to build the best and most useful models to solve difficult problems.
Modeling is a key tool for WID’s Data Science Hub.
Interdisciplinary Faculty Build Data Science Future in New Institute Based at WID
The new institute, housed at UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), will play a key role in the future of data science, developing fundamental techniques for handling increasingly massive data sets in shorter times.
Connecting the Dots: a New Method to Understand Cell Type Transitions
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) researchers Rupa Sridharan and Sushmita Roy are combining their expertise in regenerative biology and computational biology to better understand how cells transition from one type to another through gene regulation.
Inference and Evolutionary Analysis of Genome-Scale Regulatory Networks in Large Phylogenies
In a paper in Cell Systems, Sushmita Roy and colleagues develop a probabilistic graphical model-based method, multi-species regulatory network learning that uses a phylogenetic framework to infer regulatory networks in multiple species simultaneously.
UW bracketology expert surprised by Badgers 8th seed
Laura Albert, WID optimization fellow and Associate Professor in Systems and Industrial Engineering speaks to WKOW about March Madness tournament rankings.
Deciphering Gene Regulatory Networks
Systems Biology researcher Sushmita Roy is leading an effort putting computational methods to work characterizing the gene regulatory networks responsible for cell differentiation.
Understanding the Immune System with Machine Learning
Systems Biology researchers Deborah Chasman and Sushmita Roy are using machine learning to identify virus and pathogenicity-specific regulatory networks which may guide the design of effective therapeutics for infectious diseases. The work is described in a recent paper in PLOS Computational Biology.
The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs
Professor Thomas Rutherford, WID Optimization, and colleagues used numerical models to examine whether the threat of carbon tariffs might lower the cost of reductions in world carbon emissions in a paper published in the February issue of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
The Algebraic Revolution: Solving for Chocolate
UW-Madison and WID are on the front lines of the applied algebra movement, changing the way scientists in a wide range of disciplines solve problems.
Peter Lewis Explores the Epigenetic Pathways of Disease
Short circuiting tumors via Epigenetics drives Lewis Lab’s research.
Tools for Discovery: Laurent Lessard
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.
Discovery Fellow Aims to Predict Healthcare Outcomes
David Page tackles relational databases and algorithms to predict and improve patient health.
Microbial Diversity: Waging War for Coexistence
Kalin Vetsigian’s paper published today in Nature sheds light on how antibiotic production and degradation contribute to diversity in microbial communities.
Cracking the (Zip)code of Neural Cells
Published today in Stem Cell Reports, researchers led by Randolph Ashton and Ethan Lippmann present a unifying protocol to create neural stem cells from diverse regions of the hindbrain and spinal cord.
Going With the Flow: Optimizing Ecology
WID Optimization teams with local wildlife agencies to improve Great Lakes basin habitat.
Optimizing the World, One Problem at a Time
What if a computer program could take a problem you’re trying to solve and send back the most efficient solution?
Harvesting the Power of Big Data in Agriculture
Harvesting data and harvesting crops? There’s an app for that.