{"id":10,"date":"2015-01-14T16:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2022-08-25T03:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T03:45:17","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">The Benos&#8217; Lab has now moved to the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">University of Florida!<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">These pages are NOT maintained.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">For the most updated information about our group, please visit us at <a style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/com-phhp-epi-benos-lab.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu\/\">our new web page<\/a>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>(the page will be redirected there in 10 sec)<br \/>\n<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"10; URL=https:\/\/com-phhp-epi-benos-lab.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu\/\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_8695_sm.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/i>We are a diverse, interdisciplinary team who likes to tackle important questions in systems medicine by developing and using novel machine learning algorithms. Our ultimate goal is to identify risk factors and mechanisms affecting aging and&nbsp;contributing&nbsp;to the onset and progression of chronic diseases and cancer. &nbsp;We also develop predictive methods and tools that can directly improve health. &nbsp;We use probabilistic graphical models and other machine&nbsp;learning methods to integrate and mine high-dimensional, multi-modal biomedical data and&nbsp;to investigate biological processes pertinent to health and disease.<\/p>\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-180\" style=\"max-width: 870px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-107-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-180 ml-slider ms-theme-default nav-hidden\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Home\" data-height=\"250\" data-width=\"870\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_180\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_180\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-971 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-10-15 13:36:44\" data-filename=\"Fig1_MGM-720x206.png\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fig1_MGM-720x206.png\" height=\"250\" width=\"870\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-180 slide-971 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; 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Cruz\u2020, <strong>M. Jia\u2020<\/strong>, J.C. Sembrat, T. Tabib, D.A.A. Vignali, P. Sanchez, R. Lafyatis, A.L. Mora, <strong>P. Benos<\/strong>, M. Rojas, &#8220;Reduced Proportion and Activity of Natural Killer Cells in the Lung of Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis&#8221;,&nbsp;<strong>Am J Resp Crit Care Med<\/strong> (2021)&nbsp;<strong>204:<\/strong>608-610. [<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34077698\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abstract<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atsjournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1164\/rccm.202012-4418LE?journalCode=ajrccm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article<\/a>]&nbsp; &nbsp;\u2020equal contribution<\/li>\n<li>E. Valenzi, <strong>H. Yang<\/strong>, J.C. Sembrat, L. Yang, S. Winters, R. Nettles, D.J. Kass, S. Qin, X. Wang, M. Myerburg, B. Methe, A. Fitch, J. Alder, <strong>P.V. Benos<\/strong>, B.J. McVerry, M. Rojas, A. Morris, G.D. Kitsios,&nbsp;\u201cTopographic Heterogeneity of Lung Microbiota in End-Stage Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: The Microbiome in Lung Explants-2 (MiLEs-2) Study\u201d, &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Thorax<\/strong>&nbsp;(2021) <strong>76:<\/strong>239-247. [<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33268457\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abstract<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/thorax.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2020\/12\/02\/thoraxjnl-2020-214770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article<\/a>] &nbsp;[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.03.05.20031021v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medRxiv<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>X. Ge\u2020,<strong> V.K. Raghu\u2020<\/strong>, P.K. Chrysanthis, <strong>P.V. Benos<\/strong>,&nbsp;\u201cCausalMGM: an interactive web-based causal discovery tool\u201d, &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Nucleic Acids Research<\/strong>&nbsp;(2020) <strong>48(W1):<\/strong>W597-W602. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/32392295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abstract<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/nar\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/nar\/gkaa350\/5835810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article<\/a>] &nbsp;[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.causalmgm.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web tool<\/a>]&nbsp; &nbsp;\u2020equal contribution<\/li>\n<li><strong>K.L. Buschur<\/strong>, M. Chikina, <strong>P.V. Benos<\/strong>,&nbsp;\u201cCausal network perturbations for instance-specific analysis of single cell and disease samples\u201d, &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Bioinformatics<\/strong>&nbsp;(2020) <strong>36:<\/strong>2515\u20132521. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/31873725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abstract<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioinformatics\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btz949\/5686385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7178399\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMC version<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>V.K. Raghu<\/strong>, W. Zhao, J. Pu, J.K. Leader, R. Wang, J. Herman, J.-M. Yuan, <strong>P.V. Benos<\/strong>*, D.O. Wilson, \u201cFeasibility of lung cancer prediction from low-dose CT scan and smoking factors using causal models\u201d, &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Thorax<\/strong>&nbsp;(2019) <strong>74:<\/strong>643-649.&nbsp;[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/30862725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abstract<\/a>] &nbsp;[<a href=\"https:\/\/thorax.bmj.com\/content\/thoraxjnl\/early\/2019\/03\/12\/thoraxjnl-2018-212638.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article<\/a>] &nbsp;[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6585306\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMC version<\/a>] &nbsp;*corresponding author<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benos&#8217; Lab has now moved to the University of Florida! These pages are NOT maintained. For the most updated information about our group, please visit us at our new web page. 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