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==Sheldon McKay==
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I am a computational biologist and science educator, based at the [http://www.cshl.edu Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's] [http://http://www.dnalc.org DNA Learning Center] on Long Island, NY.  I am trained as a geneticist and phylogeneticist and my interests are focused on comparative genomics and evolution.  I have used bioinformatics techniques extensively for genome analysis, genome annotation, and comparative genomics.  I develop and use scientific software tools, with a special emphasis on data visualization.  I also do research in genome structure and evolution and have ongoing collaborations with large-scale cross-species RNAi, EST-based gene expression analysis, and evolution of duplicated gene pairs.  I am active in the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) Project.
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I am an open source and data interoperability advocate and contribute to a number of collaborative software development projects.  I also do outreach to promote adoption of <span class=pops>[http://iplantcollaborative.org iPlant] and GMOD tools and software, in particular the Generic Synteny Browser ([[GBrowse_syn]]), for which I teach at the GMOD summer schools and put on workshops at international conferences, such as the [http://www.intl-pag.org/18/18-gbrowse_syn.html Plant and Animal Genomes meeting] and the meeting of the [http://ccg.biology.uiowa.edu/smbe/symposia.php?action=view&sym_ID=27 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution] (SMBE) meeting and the [http://systbio.org/?q=node/333 Workshop on Comparative Genomics, Europe] and [http://www.molecularevolution.org/workshops/WCG#wcgna North America].  I am a member of a phylogenetics data interoperability colloboration ([http://www.evoio.org/wiki/Main_Page#The_EvoIO_INTEROP_project evoIO]), which recently organized a [http://www.evoio.org/wiki/VoCamp1 phyloinformatics "VoCamp"] that focused on ontologies and meta-data management for phylogenetics and taxonomy data and also helped organize the [http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Evo_Hackathon GMOD Evolutionary Biology hackathon]
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==Current Position==
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My background is in genetics and bioinformatics. I have a solid grounding in both molecular and computational biology.  I work as a lead scientific data analyst at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.  My role is to develop and implement data management practices for the Tier 1 pre-therapeutic target discovery group, identifying potential targets for future biological drug therapies.  This is the earliest phase of preclinical research and is science and discovery focused.
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Email: mckays@cshl.edu<br>
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Email: sheldon.mckay@gmail.com<br>
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Latest revision as of 00:58, 8 July 2016

Sheldon McKay

This is Sheldon

My background is in genetics and bioinformatics. I have a solid grounding in both molecular and computational biology. I work as a lead scientific data analyst at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. My role is to develop and implement data management practices for the Tier 1 pre-therapeutic target discovery group, identifying potential targets for future biological drug therapies. This is the earliest phase of preclinical research and is science and discovery focused.

More Information

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Research
Evolutionary genetics
Functional and comparative genomics
Scientific software development
Computational
Object Oriented Perl; Perl/CGI, Perl/DBI
JavaScript; AJAX; CSS
MediaWiki and PHP
SQL and database design
Massive Parallel Computing with PBS and SGE
Genome database mining (NCBI, Ensembl)
Gene Ontology and KEGG pathway analysis
Genome and Comparative Genome data visualization
Phylogenetic inference methods
Digital signal processing of DNA
The Mediawiki extension that opens and closes these sections

Email: sheldon.mckay@gmail.com