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I am a computational biologist, based at the [http://www.bio5.org/ BIO5] Institute at the [http://www.arizona.edu/ University of Arizona].  I am trained as a geneticist and phylogeneticist and my interests are focused on comparative genomics and evolution.  I use bioinformatics techniques extensively for genome analysis pipelines, genome annotation, and comparative genomics.  I develop and use scientific software tools, with a special emphasis on data visualization.  I also do research in genome structure and evolution and have ongoing collaborations with large-scale cross-species RNAi, EST-based gene expression analysis, and evolution of duplicated gene pairs.  In role as the Scientific Lead of the iPlant Tree of Life engagement team, I manage eight ongoing collaborative research projects focused primarily on the scale up and analysis of the tree of life for 500,000 green plant species.  I am also active in Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) Project.
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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 GMOD tools and software, in particular the Generic Synteny Browser ([[GBrowse_syn]]), for which I teach at the GMOD summer schools and put on workshops at international conferences, such as the [http://www.intl-pag.org/18/18-gbrowse_syn.html Plant and Animal Genomes meeting] and the meeting of the [http://ccg.biology.uiowa.edu/smbe/symposia.php?action=view&sym_ID=27 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution] (SMBE) meeting.  I am a member of a phylogenetics data interoperability colloboration ([http://www.evoio.org/wiki/Main_Page#The_EvoIO_INTEROP_project evoIO]), which recently organized a [http://www.evoio.org/wiki/VoCamp1 phyloinformatics "VoCamp"] that focused on ontologies and meta-data management for phylogenetics and taxonomy data.
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I am a computational biologist, based at [http://www.cshl.edu Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's] [http://http://www.dnalc.org DNA Learning Center] on Long Island, NY.  I am 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.
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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 <span class=pops>[http://iplantcollaborative.org iPlant] and GMOD tools and software, in particular the Generic Synteny Browser ([[GBrowse_syn]]), for which I teach at the GMOD summer schools and put on workshops at international conferences, such as the [http://www.intl-pag.org/18/18-gbrowse_syn.html Plant and Animal Genomes meeting] and the meeting of the [http://ccg.biology.uiowa.edu/smbe/symposia.php?action=view&sym_ID=27 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution] (SMBE) meeting and the [http://systbio.org/?q=node/333 Workshop on Comparative Genomics, Europe] and [http://www.molecularevolution.org/workshops/WCG#wcgna North America].  I am a member of a phylogenetics data interoperability colloboration ([http://www.evoio.org/wiki/Main_Page#The_EvoIO_INTEROP_project evoIO]), which recently organized a [http://www.evoio.org/wiki/VoCamp1 phyloinformatics "VoCamp"] that focused on ontologies and meta-data management for phylogenetics and taxonomy data and also helped organize the [http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Evo_Hackathon GMOD Evolutionary Biology hackathon]
  
 
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'''Scientific Lead''' of the [http://www.iplantcollaborative.org the iPlant Collaborative] [http://iptol.iplantcollaborative.org Phylogeny Engagement Team]<br>
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Email: mckays@email.arizona.edu<br>
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Email: mckays@cshl.edu<br>
 
Gchat: sheldon.mckay@gmail.com<br>
 
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Skype: mckays630<br>
 
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Revision as of 11:00, 19 July 2013

Sheldon McKay

This is Sheldon

I am a computational biologist, based at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNA Learning Center on Long Island, NY. I am 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 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 and put on workshops at international conferences, such as the Plant and Animal Genomes meeting and the meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) meeting and the Workshop on Comparative Genomics, Europe and North America. I am a member of a phylogenetics data interoperability colloboration (evoIO), which recently organized a phyloinformatics "VoCamp" that focused on ontologies and meta-data management for phylogenetics and taxonomy data and also helped organize the GMOD Evolutionary Biology hackathon

Current Position

Computational Biologist; iPlant Education-Outreach-Training Manager, Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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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: mckays@cshl.edu
Gchat: sheldon.mckay@gmail.com
Skype: mckays630
Office: (516)-367-5185