After spending the summer of 2011 at an internship where I did work on rapid genotyping of bacterial genome samples, I returned to the University of Notre Dame for my 3rd year of Ph.D. studies. The work that I had done prior on the MAKER platform was polished and submitted to ICCABS 2012 and was accepted for publication. In addition to this I have been working on my Ph.D.
My research recently has focused on the MAKER annotation tool. As part of my work, I have adapted it for use with the Work Queue distributed computing framework. We are now capable of running MAKER annotations on distributed heterogeneous systems.
I presented a paper entitled "Taming Complex Bioinformatics Workflows with Weaver, Makeflow and Starch" at the 5th Workshop of Workflows in Support of Large-scale Science at Supercomputing 2010 in New Orleans, LA. Further details on the paper and the text can be found on my Research page.
About Me
Andrew is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the Notre Dame Bioinformatics Laboratory.