Computational Biology & Applied Bioinformatics (CoBaAB) Lab (CDM-024)

Summary 🟡 ✓

• Owner Unit: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
• Sub-unit: School of Computing (affiliated with the Center for Data Science)
• Content Type: laboratory
• Campus/Location: Loop
• Last Verified: June 14, 2026

Description & capabilities

The Computational Biology and Applied Bioinformatics (CoBaAB) Lab is a research group in the School of Computing focused on large-scale biological sequence (nucleic and amino acid) data. Active research includes phylogenomics, pangenomics, biofilm data analysis, and machine/deep-learning approaches to functional annotation of sequence data. The lab is affiliated with the DePaul Center for Data Science (CDS) and coordinates interdisciplinary research with other CDS labs including VIDA and MedIX (CDM-011). It was proposed and established with a DePaul Academic Growth and Innovation Fund (AGIF) award.

Access status

• Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
• Rationale: Lab membership is by arrangement with the PIs; the lab recruits researchers by email rather than offering open-campus access.
• Access URL: cds.cdm.depaul.edu/affiliated-labs-2-2
• Contact name: Thiru Ramaraj
• Contact email: cobaab@depaul.edu
• Verification date: 2026-06-14
• Source URLs:
• cds.cdm.depaul.edu/affiliated-labs-2-2

Verification

• Status: confirmed (✓)
• Confidence: 88/100
• Rationale: Official DePaul Center for Data Science affiliated-labs page documents the lab, its PIs, research areas, and members; corroborated by the lab's own site.
• Last verified: 2026-06-14
• Evidence:
• Center for Data Science affiliated labs cds.cdm.depaul.edu/affiliated-labs-2-2
• Lab site depaulbioinformatics.github.io/teams/2020-01-01-cobaab

Equipment

Computational biology lab; sequencing and compute via affiliated resources.

Last verified: May 28, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

• Website: CoBaAB Lab (Center for Data Science)
• Email: CoBaAB Lab

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

• John Rogers (Faculty lead) — Profile
• Thiru Ramaraj (Faculty lead) — Profile

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Affiliated with the Center for Data Science (CDS); coordinates research with VIDA / MedIX (CDM-011). Funded by AGIF grant GRA-897. Co-led by Thiru Ramaraj (PER-016) and John Rogers.

Linked Relationship IDs

• CDM-011 - VIDA / MedIX / IMP Labs
• CDM-025 - DePaul Center for Data Science

Notes

PIs Thiru Ramaraj (PER-016) and John Rogers (PER-120). Promoted from candidate RC-002 on 2026-06-14 via institutional web evidence (packet 2026-06-14-hard-tech-candidate-web-discovery). Distinct lab from CDM-011 (its own membership, contact, and CDS affiliation), though research is coordinated with VIDA/MedIX.