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Revision as of 21:58, 26 September 2015
Sheldon McKay
I am a computational biologist, 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 for data analysis and visualization. I also do research in genome structure and evolution and have ongoing collaborations with large-scale cross-species RNAi, RNA-Seq and EST-based gene expression analysis. I am active in the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) Project.
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 iPlant and GMOD tools and software, in particular the Generic Synteny Browser (GBrowse_syn), for which I teach at the GMOD summer schools.
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- Click on a section title below to open:
- 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
- Active in the GMOD and iPlant consortia
- GBrowse_syn primary developer
- GBrowse_karyotype primary developer
- GBrowse core developer
- GBrowse PrimerDesigner plugin for inline design and selection of PCR primers
- GBrowse Spectrogram plugin for spectral analysis of DNA
- Annoying Popup_Balloons