Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Professor, Department of Medicine
Building on my longstanding interests in mammalian genetics and genomics, my group’s work centers on the development of the Reactome Knowledgebase, an Elixir and Global Biodata Coalition core biological data resource, in collaboration with research teams at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, the Oregon Health & Science University, and the European Bioinformatics Institute - EMBL. We use a variety of sophisticated data-mining tools to capture molecular details of a broad range of normal and disease-related human biological processes in formats that meet community standards for data quality, interoperability, reusability, and open access.
The product of this work is a freely available, expert-annotated, peer-reviewed network of molecular transformations in a single consistent data structure. It now has information for about two-thirds of the human proteome. Reactome thus functions as a high-quality digital textbook of human molecular physiology, as a tool for discovering functional relationships in high-throughput datasets such as gene expression profiles and mutation catalogs from tumor cells, and as a starting point for computational modeling.
PhD from Rockefeller University
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