Download Genetics, Nucleic Acids Research

Gary Stormo
by Andrew Bardee
History
• Born 1950 in South Dakota
• Undergraduate in Biology
from Caltech
• PhD in Molecular Biology
from University of Colorado
• Currently a professor at
Washington University
Medical School
Current Employment
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Also working at Stormo Lab
Editor of Bioinformatics, Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Deputy Executive Editor for PLoS Computational Biology
Editorial Board: Genetics, Nucleic Acids Research, and
more.
• Fellow for the International Society of Computational Biology
• Also working at Stormo Lab
Work
Has worked on the following:
• Analysing RNA secondary structures
• Identifying transcription factor binding sites
• regulation of gene expression
o Predicting of promoter regions
• Protein-DNA interaction
Work
Has worked on the following:
• Analysing RNA secondary structures
• Identifying regulatory motifs, specific patterns in DNA
• Identifying transcription factor binding sites
• regulation of gene expression
o Predicting of promoter regions
• Protein-DNA interaction
o determining the specificity and affinity of protein-DNA
bindings
• Identifying non-protein coding functional sites in DNA
Tools developed
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BEEML: a tool to estimate binding energy
PromFD: Predicts promoter regions
LOCUS, GeneParser: Finding genes in genomes
RNASampler: Predicts RNA secondary structure
Consensus: finds patterns in DNA and proteins
APACE: automated protein annotator