User:Clements

Dave Clements

I work on the Galaxy Project for Johns Hopkins University, where I organize meetings and courses, prepare training materials, and improve Galaxy's documentation wiki, and web presence. I'm also hoping to touch the (Python!) code.

Prior to working on Galaxy I ran the GMOD Help Desk from 2007-2010, where I did similar work. I am still involved in the GMOD community as a representative of Galaxy. Since 2013 I telecommute from the Toomey Lab in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Oregon. From 2007 through 2012 I telecommuted from the Phillips Lab in the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (CEEB), also at Oregon.

Contact Details

E-mail	clements@galaxyprojet.org
URL	My home page

Background

My background is in computer science. I have been working in biology since 2000.

Prior to working on Galaxy, and for NESCent and GMOD before that, I worked as the database manager at the European Renal Genome project (EuReGene), as a member of the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project (EMAP). This project studied kidney development and disease. My work focused on gene expression patterns, and anatomy ontologies.

Prior to EuReGene I worked for ZFIN, the zebrafish model organism database at the University of Oregon for 5 years as a database administrator and software engineer.

My pre-bioinformatics career included

• 4 years at an artificial intelligence lab at the University of Oregon,
• 6 years at database management system vendors,
• 2 years as a database administrator at General Mills,
• Temporary positions (6 to 12 months) working on
  • teaching database courses at the University of Oregon
  • a data warehouse for inventory control in semiconductor manufacturing (HP),
  • a test harness for a network controller OS (IBM), and
  • query tools for credit unions (EDS)
• A master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. My research focused on transaction management in federated databases,
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Publications

See the current list at my Galaxy home page.