I'm a sixth year graduate student in
Computational Biology
at the UC Santa Cruz Department of
Computer Science.
Dr. David Haussler is my
advisor, I also work with
Jim
Kent and
Dr. Manuel Ares.
Before starting my work with computers I was a biologist. I recieved
my BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UC Santa Cruz in
1996.
Currently I'm working on a couple of exciting projects. The first
one centers on alternative splicing. I've been constructing
alternative splicing graphs from cDNA evidence and seeing how
alterntive splicing is conserved in other genomes. You can see the
results visualized on the UC Santa Cruz
Human Genome Browser. I've been
lucky enough to get a chance to work on the genome browser as it has
been developed.
Bioinformatics requires skills in both Computer Science and
Biology. Starting from scratch in either discipline can be difficult
at best and very frustrating at worst. Here I've started some
documentation to help people get going. Included are
