The Rätsch laboratory focuses on bridging medicine and biology with computer science. The group’s research interests are relatively broad as it covers an area from algorithmic computer science to biomedical application fields. On the one hand, this includes work on algorithms that can learn or extract insights from data, on the other hand it involves developing tools that we and others employ for the analysis of large genomic or medical data sets, often in collaboration with biologists and physicians. These tools aim to solve real-world biomedical problems. In short, the group advances the state-of-the-art in data science algorithms, turns them into commonly usable tools for specific applications, and then collaborate with biologists and physicians on life science problems. Along the way, we learn more and can go back to improve the algorithms.