Nuno Bandeira and Julio Ng, University of California - San Diego (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Nuno Bandeira and Julio Ng, University of California - San Diego

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Nuno Bandeira (left) and Julio Ng (right) are UC San Diego researchers and co-lead authors on a Nature Methods paper describing computational and experimental advances that enable researchers to quickly and inexpensively determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new -- or if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already been described and are therefore not patentable. Nuno Bandeira is director of UC San Diego's Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry and a researcher at the UC San Diego division of Calit2. Julio Ng is a doctoral student in bioinformatics at UC San Diego, with affiliations in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego.

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