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Sheldon McKay

This is Sheldon

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 currently serve as a coordinator of the Model Organism Database Unifoed Gene Model working group, charged with migrating model organism data models and associated infrastructure to the NIH commons cloud computing platform.

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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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
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Email: sheldon.mckay@gmail.com