Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and William R. Brody Faculty Scholar, has been recognized as a top performer at the fourth Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation Challenge (CAGI4). She was invited to participate in the March 2016 CAGI4 Conference on the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco.

Dr. Karchin’s research group has been a leader in the CAGI Personal Genome Project (PGP) challenge for three straight years. A summary of the core method used in the challenge has been published in PLoS Computational Biology “A probabilistic model to predict clinical phenotypic traits from genome sequencing.”

The Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation (CAGI) is a community experiment to objectively assess computational methods for predicting phenotypic impacts of genomic variation and to inform future research directions.