User:Mckays
Sheldon McKay
I am a computational biologist and science educator, 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
iPlant Education-Outreach-Training Manager, Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
More Information
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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
- The Mediawiki extension that opens and closes these sections
Email: mckays@cshl.edu
Gchat: sheldon.mckay@gmail.com
Skype: mckays630
Office: (516)-367-5185
- Active in the GMOD and iPlant consortia
- GBrowse_syn primary developer
- GBrowse_karyotype primary developer
- GBrowse core developer
- GBrowse PrimerDesigner plugin for inline design and selection of PCR primers
- GBrowse Spectrogram plugin for spectral analysis of DNA
- Annoying Popup_Balloons
