Broadly speaking I am a molecular biologist who has converted to bioinformatics. The first 10 years of my career I was doing molecular biology and biochemistry bench work on problems associated with translational recoding. Since 2003 I have mutated into a full fledged bioinformatics geek. My work is currently focused broadly in the field of genomics with projects in comparative genomics, genome annotation, biomedical ontologies, human polymorphism analysis, regulation of transcription and biomedical imaging informatics. I am enthralled by the opportunities that are being opened by the low cost/high throughput sequencing and imaging technologies available today and thoroughly enjoy working on problems that span the gap between wrangling the technologies needed to manage large genomic datasets and pondering the biology that makes it all interesting and relevant.Specialties: comparative genomics, genome annotation, biomedical ontologies, RNA structural analysis, polymorphism analysis, Perl, BioPerl, RDMS & SQL, web2 application programming, linux systems, cluster and cloud computing and general data munging and wrangling.