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Ramble about Paul Horton

My academic interests are in programming, algorithms, particularly string algorithms, and bioinformatics in general.

...after a nearly three year break from research, in which I worked as a software engineer for two start-up companies (one of which, Eland, is still around), learned a fair amount of Mandarin and visited many magical places such as Black Rock City and Crater Lake. Drank plenty of lattes and probably didn't put a whole lot of selection pressure on the old neurons...

I started the sequence analysis group in April 2003 at CBRC in Tokyo. Was just me at first, now we are eight full time. As a group we have active collaborations with groups performing large-scale protein-protein interaction experiments, microarray analysis of cancer tissue, and time scale analysis of the expression levels transcription factors.

I personally am working on a protein localization prediction program WoLF PSORT. I also designed and implemented the profile search algorithms used by the CellMontage web site made by Wataru Fujibuchi in our group. Lastly I am also continuously promising, but never find the time, to make a more practical version of my exact but exponentially slow motif discovery program Tsukuba BB.

Contributions to the Community

I serve on the editorial board of MPS, a subgroup of the Information Processing Society of Japan concerned with Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving and the (Japanese) Chem-Bio Informatics Society. I have also served as a peer reviewer for journals including: Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Molecular Biology, Protein Science, BMC Bioinformatics, The IEEE Journal of Bioinformatics, The Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and PLoS Computational Biology.

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