Some links for Bioinformatics Databases While speaking to the Bioinformatics course on Feb. 8, I will mention these links to interesting lists of databases and detailed information about certain databases:
Nucleic Acids Research Biological Database List
The history of PIR,
including Dr. Margaret Dayhoff
A 1969 review of the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structures
The PIR database
A description
of the flat file representation of UniProt.
Other Uniprot documentation
Uniprot database public download site
XMLPipeDB,
a tool for creating relational data from XML data specifications.
An Example database schema (visual depiction)
of a hypothetical WHO Database.
Example document from the WHO document repository
List of documents from the U.S. CDC
As far as teaching goes, I specialize in computer science, and in particular database systems, Object-Oriented programming with Java,
and Internet computing. My research interests include
bioinformatics, improving data
visualization and exploration, extending database systems for scientific data, and distributed computing.
Before coming to Macalester, I
conducted research at the Center for Computational Genomics and
Bioinformatics at the University of Minnesota. I'm an avid sports fan
and outdoor enthusiast, and particularly enjoy biking, camping, hiking, roller
blading, and softball. Drinking coffee and attending the Minnesota Lynx
WNBA basketball games are my most prominent addictions.
