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Dave Clements

Dave Clements

I work for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and since September 2007 I run the GMOD Help Desk. I telecommute from the Phillips Lab in the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (CEEB) at the University of Oregon. See the GMOD Help Desk page for an explanation of what I do for the GMOD project.

Contact Details

Background

My background is in computer science. I have been working in biological databases since 2000.

Prior to working for NESCent on GMOD I worked as the database manager at the European Renal Genome project (EuReGene), as a member of the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project (EMAP). This project studied kidney development and disease. My work focused on gene expression patterns, and anatomy ontologies.

Prior to EuReGene I worked for ZFIN, the zebrafish model organism database at the University of Oregon for 5 years as a database administrator and software engineer.

My pre-bioinformatics career included

• 4 years at an artificial intelligence lab,
• 6 years at database management system vendors,
• 2 years as a database administrator at General Mills,
• Temporary positions (6 to 12 months) working on
  • teaching database courses at the University of Oregon
  • a data warehouse for inventory control in semiconductor manufacturing (HP),
  • a test harness for a network controller OS (IBM), and
  • query tools for credit unions (EDS)
• A master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. My research focused on transactions management in federated databases,
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Publications

• A high-resolution anatomical ontology of the developing murine genitourinary tract; in Gene Expression Patterns, 7(6), pp. 680-699 (June 2007). Melissa H. Little, Jane Brennan, Kylie Georgas, Jamie A. Davies, Duncan R. Davidson, Richard A. Baldock, Annemiek Beverdam, John F. Bertram, Blanche Capel, Han Sheng Chiu, Dave Clements, Luise Cullen-McEwen, Jean Fleming, Thierry Gilbert, Doris Herzlinger, Derek Houghton, Matt H. Kaufman, Elena Kleymenova, Peter A. Koopman, Alfor G. Lewis, Andrew P. McMahon, Cathy L. Mendelsohn, Eleanor K. Mitchell, Bree A. Rumballe, Derina E. Sweeney, M. Todd Valerius, Gen Yamada, Yiya Yang and Jing Yu

• The Zebrafish Information Network: the zebrafish model organism database; in Nucleic Acids Research 34:D581-585 (2006); Sprague, J., Bayraktaroglu, L., Clements, D., Conlin, T., Fashena, D., Frazer, K., Haendel, M., Howe, D.G., Mani, P., Ramachandran, S., Schaper, K., Segerdell, E., Song, P., Sprunger, B., Taylor, S., Van Slyke, C.E., and Westerfield, M.

• The Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN): the zebrafish model organism database; in Nucleic Acids Research 31(1):241-243 2003); Sprague, J., Clements, D., Conlin, T., Edwards, P., Frazer, K., Schaper, K., Segerdell, E., Song, P., Sprunger, B., and Westerfield, M.

• The Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN): a resource for genetic, genomic and developmental research; in Nucleic Acids Research 29(1):87-90 (2001); Sprague, J., Doerry, E., Douglas, S., Westerfield, M., and ZFIN Group, (Conlin, T., Clements, D., Edwards, P., Frazer, K., Schaper, K., Segerdell, E.)

• Squeaky Wheel Optimization; in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 10, 353-373 (May 1999); D. Joslin and D. Clements. This material was covered in less detail in Squeaky Wheel Optimization; in Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98).

• Cyclic Scheduling; in Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99), D. Draper, A. Jonsson, D. Clements, and D. Joslin.

• Heuristic Optimization: A hybrid AI/OR approach.' at Workshop on Industrial Constraint-Directed Scheduling, held in conjunction with CP'97, Schloss Hagenberg, Austria (1997); D. Clements, J. Crawford, D. Joslin, G. Nemhauser, M. Puttlitz and M. Savelsbergh.

• Myriad: Design and Implementation of a Federated Database Prototype; in Software - Practice and Experience, 25(5), 533-562 (May 1995); E.P. Lim, S.Y. Hwang, J. Srivastava, D. Clements and M. Ganesh.

Presentations, Tutorials, Workshops, Demos and Posters

• Workshop: Chado - A Database Schema for Integrating Biological Data, with Scott Cain at the 2nd Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium, 2008. (Upcoming)

• Poster: Digesting the Genome Glut: Promoting the Use and Extension of GMOD To Emerging Model Organisms, with Brian Osborne, Hilmar Lapp, Xianhua Liu, W. Owen McMillan, Nassib Nassar, and Todd J. Vision, at the 2007 Genome Informatics conference. An overview of GMOD highlighting components, the new web site, and using GMOD for evolution research.

• Presentation: Gene Expression Databases: Where and When, at NESCent in April 2007. Describes common issues with gene expression databases focusing on anatomy ontology issues. Uses 4 websites to demonstrate different ways to deal with these issues.

• Demonstration: Worldwide Aeronautical Route Planner, with Charles B. McVey, and Andrew J. Parkes at the 16th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99).

• Demonstration: Squeaky Wheel Optimization, with David Joslin at the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98).