Beginning the new year seems like a good time to update some of the recent lab high lights.
We received a renewal grant to continue development of the Sequence Ontology and tools in August, from the NHGRI. As part of this grant we are working with Mike Bada from the University of Colorado. In addition, the lab also received a seed grant from the school of medicine’s Personalized Health Care Program.
The lab grew over the past year. Shale Dames joined as a graduate student in the department of Biomedical Informatics. He is interested in quality control of next generation sequence data with a focus on the development of genetic tests. MeiYee Law joined as a post-doc, and will focus on the analysis of RNA seq data and the development of metrics to help understand this kind of data. Shawn Rynearson has been with the lab for about a year as a programmer. We are now situated in the Health Sciences Education Building.