Where computation meets the bench: collaborating for cancer research

Roshan Sharma (left) is Manager of the computational biology team at the Single-cell Analytics Innovation Lab (SAIL) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC; NY, USA), the oldest and largest private cancer center in the world. Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) is the basic and translational research arm of MSKCC and is home to many innovation labs: technology hubs straddling the line between academic labs and institution-serving cores. Sharma’s computational biology team at SAIL build and maintain processing pipelines and software for institutional single-cell data, preparing this data and making them readily available for collaborators. His team also works to enable...