The Knight Lab is located at the University of Colorado at Boulder and primarily focuses on bioinformatics research. Rob Knight was selected among thirteen interdisciplinary research projects on synthetic biology that were awarded by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative.

Advances in high-throughput sequencing and in computational techniques allow us to address large-scale questions about evolution that have never before been accessible. Our research combines computational and experimental techniques to ask questions about the evolution of the composition of biomolecules, genomes, and communities.