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Rice computer scientists race ahead in pathogen-detection DARPA challenge

As part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Bio-attribution Challenge, a team of Rice University computer scientists is building a computational tool to screen environmental DNA samples for pathogens.

Ryan Doughty, Felix Quintana, Michael Nute, Joshua Stallings and Todd Treangen (Rice University)

Link: https://news.rice.edu/news/2026/rice-computer-scientists-race-ahead-pathogen-detection-darpa-challenge