Intro:
Brian works on informatics projects for BioTeam and supports the company internally as director. He joined in 2008 and brings a deep understanding of bioinformatics, software development, and molecular biology.
Focus Areas:
- Bioinformatics
- Organizational Assessments
- DevOps
- Amazon Web Services
- Data Integration
Tools:
- Hidden Markov Models
- Python
- BioPython
- Ansible
- Genome Visualization
- Jekyll
- Django
- OBO Ontologies
- Mysql, Postgres, CouchDB
- AWS
- BioPerl
Scientific Areas:
- Yeast and Microbial Genetics
- Plant Genetics
- Molecular Biology
- Genome Sequencing
- Genome Annotation
- Drug Discovery
Background
Brian got his Ph.D. studying the molecular biology of the yeast Saccharomyces at MIT and did post-doctoral work on plant genetics and genomics at the Plant Gene Expression Center (ARS, UC Berkeley). Subsequently, he was lead bioinformaticist for the group that sequenced and annotated Arabidopsis chromosome 1. He has been a Group Leader at Cadus Pharmaceuticals, Director of Information Technology at OSI Pharmaceuticals, and CTO at Cognia Corporation. At his own consulting company, he worked on a variety of open source and commercial projects, with an emphasis on scripting, data integration, technical documentation, and data visualization. He is a long-time core contributor to the open source software community, including the Bioperl and BioPython bioinformatics toolkits and the Generic Model Organism Database.
Personal Interests:
Brian is an adequate beekeeper, an enlightened banjo player, and a dedicated vegetable gardener.
