Welcome to the home page for the lab of Andrew Su. Our group works in the field of bioinformatics, and is located at the Scripps Research Institute in sunny La Jolla, California. Please browse around the site to get an overview of our research, to meet our team members, and to read our blog.
Our Research
Our group embraces the data mining challenges that have resulted from high-throughput, multi-dimensional and multi-modal biology. We have many ongoing research projects that span multiple disease areas in collaborations with some of the world’s experts in these areas.
We have a strong interest in in making biomedical knowledge more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (F.A.I.R.). In support of this goal, we build user friendly tools, resources, and infrastructure to support the bleeding edge of biomedical research.
We harness the collective efforts of the community (both researchers and the general public) towards solving grand challenges in biology. These “community intelligence” initiatives are powerful because they scale with the explosive growth of data generation in science.
The laboratory of Dr. Andrew Su works in a highly interwoven collaboration with the laboratory of Dr. Chunlei Wu. Our research is primarily funded by NIH grants to Andrew, Chunlei and to our many collaborators here at Scripps Research and at outside institutions.
What’s New
Freelance/contract opportunity: DrugMechDB
NOTE: we currently have enough curators for this project at the moment, but feel free to email if you'd like to be on our list of contacts when/if we expand this effort. ---- Our lab is developing DrugMechDB, a database of drug mechanisms. We are looking for one or...
Building a resource sharing site with BioThings SDK and the CD2H Data Discovery Engine (part 5)
How can you add new data sources using the BioThings SDK to make them more FAIR?
Building a resource sharing site with BioThings SDK and the CD2H Data Discovery Engine (part 4)
What is the BioThings SDK? How can you use it to quickly create an API and make your data more F.A.I.R.?
Latest Publication
- A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses January 23, 2021CONCLUSIONS: Although this workflow is developed and applied in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, to demonstrate its broader applicability it was also applied to other human coronaviruses (MERS, SARS, human coronavirus NL63, human coronavirus 229E, human coronavirus HKU1, human coronavirus OC4).Andra Waagmeester
- Multi-Omics Database Analysis of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in Cancer December 3, 2020Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) are key enzymes in the mRNA translation machinery, yet they possess numerous non-canonical functions developed during the evolution of complex organisms. The aaRSs and aaRS-interacting multi-functional proteins (AIMPs) are continually being implicated in tumorigenesis, but these connections are often limited in scope, focusing on specific aaRSs in distinct cancer subtypes. Here, we […]Justin Wang
Who We Are
Andrew Su
Andrew is a Professor at the Scripps Research Institute in the Department of Integrative, Structural and Computational Biology. His research focuses on building and applying bioinformatics infrastructure for biomedical discovery.
Our Team
We are a motley crew joined together by a common belief in open and participatory science. Our backgrounds are diverse and we believe that these different talents and expertise build a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Our Collaborators
We collaborate with some experts across many different disciplines of research from multiple areas of disease research to machine learning and crowdsourced knowledge management.
Join us!
Are you interested in doing highly collaborative science with both experimental and computational colleagues? We are always interested in recruiting talented individuals to join our team. If you fit that description, please get in touch!