Welcome to the Shen Lab at Columbia University. Our research is at the interface of biology, statistics, and computer science. The long-term goal is to study human genetics and diseases by developing new methodologies in computational genomics. Specific areas of interest include genome sequencing {Shen et al 2010; Shen et al 2011} and assembly {Sodergren et al 2006}, genetic mapping of disease genes {Lucena et al 2011}, immune response, genomics of cancer metastasis, and pharmacogenomics {Shen et al 2011}.