Introducing the Genome Commons
Reece Hart,
Chief Scientist of the Genome Commons
UC Berkeley
Additional Authors: Steven E. Brenner
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Abstract: The imminent and widespread availability of personal genomic sequencing will enable unprecedented scientific and medical discovery opportunities. However, the knowledge, information, and algorithmic infrastructure necessary to deliver on this promise are largely non-existent. The Genome Commons is a nascent project that Is constructing open access and open source databases and tools, and developing scientific knowledge and analytical methods, to realize the transformative opportunities presented by the radical change in genomic sequencing capability.
Presenter Biography: Reece Hart is the Chief Scientist of the Genome Commons, a new inter-campus project at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. Hart received his M.S. in computer science in 1994 and Ph.D. in molecular biophysics in 1998, both from Washington University in St. Louis. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Biology Center at IBM's Watson labs, where he worked on automated discovery of protein sequence motifs and their applications to function and structure prediction. In 2001, he joined Genentech as a scientist in the Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering departments where he applied structure prediction to target discovery. In 2006, he became the scientific manager of Research Computing & Informatics at Genentech. In September 2009, he joined the Genome Commons at the University of California, Berkeley.
Online Presentation: http://lifescience.planetconnect.com/ppt/PMPrinceton/REECE_HART.pdf
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