Cathy Wu Research Group

University of Delaware

Cathy Wu develops computational methods and knowledge resources that help make large biological datasets interpretable. Her research spans protein informatics, biological text mining, natural-language processing, ontologies, and networks connecting genes, diseases, and drugs. Machine learning and semantic computing support the extraction and organization of information that is otherwise scattered across data and scientific literature. She directs the Protein Information Resource and works across computer science and biology. The program connects biological questions with the infrastructure and analytical methods needed to turn complex information into reusable scientific knowledge.