Benjamin Siranosian

After a long process of PhD applications, interviews and waiting for results, I'm happy to announce that I've settled on a home for the next 5 years

After months of training for the Vineyard 70.3 triathlon, the weekend of the race was finally here!

SCS2016 featured keynote lectures by two senior scientists in computational biology.

One word: communication.

The Connectivity Map team at the Broad Institute is crowdsourcing solutions to a computational problem in our line of work.

A 24 hour adventure race through Boston!

I've been interested in doing a triathlon for a while now - the combination of swim, bike and run is an excellent test of fitness, endurance and skill.

Back home on the East Coast, I started to reflect on the trip that had occupied the past month of my life.

I had to include a trip on Skyline Drive through Shenandoah on my route back.

The next stop on the trip was Denver, Colorado.

Next stop: Nashville.

After a long, hot day of driving (high temperature of 114˚F!)

Lizzy left from LAX, and I'm on my own for the next week and a half until I get back to the East Coast.

I've been attached to Yosemite since I got into climbing freshman year at Brown, and I was thrilled I finally had a chance to visit the park.

We made our way down the Pacific Coast Highway again to stay with Lizzy's other brother in LA.

After our time roughing it in Yosemite, Lizzy and I were looking forward to the comfort of staying at her brother's house in Santa Cruz, California

Lizzy and I spent two days exploring different sections of Oregon.

We were headed south, down to Yosemite National Park.

My girlfriend Lizzy flew out to Seattle to join me for the next section of the trip - a tour down the West Coast.

We spent Thursday exploring Yellowstone.

We wanted to spend a night in the backcountry in Grand Teton National Park, but all backcountry stays require a permit.

The next part of the trip had a ton of driving.

We drove the 500 miles from Badlands to Yellowstone over two days, stopping for a night at the Prune Creek Campground in the Bighorn National Forest,…

We arrived at Badlands National Park later in the day on Monday.

I woke up to sunrise in the Badlands.

The trip is off to a good start!

Early start this morning!

I have a lot to update on this site... my last post is a year old!

One of the first steps in the analysis of most next generation sequencing datasets (unless you're doing a novel genome or transcript assembly) is mapping to…

In my past three posts I talked about the highlights of the 2014 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in Boston, MA.

Today was the third and final day of the main ISMB conference!

I'll be continuing my updates on the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference with some of the research that I saw today.

Today was the first day of the main ISMB conference in Boston.

I had an excellent opportunity to present my mycobacteriophage kmer usage research at the ISCB Student Council Symposium earlier today.

What a weekend!

This weekend I'm down at HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus at the SEA-PHAGES undergraduate research symposium.

As a teaching assistant in Brown's first year seminar "Phage Hunters" I lead several freshman biology and computer science students in an independent…

I submitted some research I've been working on (as a byproduct of TAing a first year seminar and leading some students in an independent bioinformatics…

I handed in the final assignment of the semester yesterday, which marked the end of my Junior year at Brown.

I don't know how they find the time to do it, but many of today's top bioinformatics and computational biology researchers have a regularly updated blog

Eric Minikel and Sonia Vallabh were working as an urban planner and a lawyer until 2011, when they learned Sonia has a rare heritable disease - Fatal…

This semester, I've made an effort to get all the code I write under version control.

Many problems in bioinformatics involve working with short pieces of DNA sequence.

That question seems to be on the mind of a lot of the people around me lately.

Students are pretty much on their own for figuring things out after undergrad (I definitely don't miss high school guidance counselors, though).

I just returned from an excellent conference sponsored by the Brown Club of Boston.