Biographical sketches of authors

Adam C. Siepel   National Center for Genome Resources, 2935 Rodeo Park Drive East, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 (electronic mail: acs@ncgr.org). Mr. Siepel received a B.S. degree in agricultural and biological engineering from Cornell University in 1994. He has worked in bioinformatics since 1995, first with the HIV database at Los Alamos National Laboratory and starting in 1996 at the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), where he began as a software developer. He recently moved from a role as a group leader for software development to become coprogram leader for NCGR's new integration program.

Andrew N. Tolopko   National Center for Genome Resources, 2935 Rodeo Park Drive East, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 (electronic mail: ant@ncgr.org). Mr. Tolopko studied computer science at North Carolina State University. In 1994, he went on to serve as the Chief Technology Officer at LibraSoft, Inc., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he led the development of vertical-market application software. Mr. Tolopko joined the National Center for Genome Resources in 1999. He currently acts as a senior software developer in the Integration program, and one of the chief architects of the ISYS project.

Andrew D. Farmer   National Center for Genome Resources, 2935 Rodeo Park Drive East, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 (electronic mail: adf@ncgr.org). Mr. Farmer received a B.A. degree in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College, Santa Fe, in 1993. He went on to begin a career in bioinformatics as a research assistant with the HIV database at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Following a position at the Santa Fe Institute where he applied hidden Markov models to genetic sequence alignments, he took his current position at NCGR, where he develops databases and software systems in bioinformatics.

Peter A. Steadman   National Center for Genome Resources, 2935 Rodeo Park Drive East, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 (electronic mail: ps@ncgr.org). Mr. Steadman received a B.S. degree in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College, Santa Fe, in 1992, then studied physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mr. Steadman developed novel radiation detectors at Los Alamos National Laboratory before coming to NCGR in 1997. He is currently a software developer for the Integration and Pathways programs.

Faye D. Schilkey   National Center for Genome Resources, 2935 Rodeo Park Drive East, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 (electronic mail: fds@ncgr.org). Ms. Schilkey received her B.S. degree in computer engineering in 1986 from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Before coming to NCGR, she worked for nine years in the areas of automotive engineering, real-time embedded software systems for military applications, and general system administration. She joined NCGR in 1996 as a systems administrator and later became a database administrator. Thereafter, she became a program leader for the Infrastructure program while maintaining her database administrator role. Her other technical interests include software development.

B. Dawn Perry   National Center for Genome Resources, 2935 Rodeo Park Drive East, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 (electronic mail: bdp@ncgr.org). Ms. Perry received her M.A. degree in librarianship and information management from the University of Denver in 1983. She spent several years working in the computer-based training industry as a writer, instructor, tester, designer, configuration manager, librarian, and manager of groups of software engineers and training developers. She joined NCGR in 1997, where she is a knowledge management specialist focusing efforts on technical writing, intranet development, and maintaining a research library.

William D. Beavis   National Center for Genome Resources, 2935 Rodeo Park Drive East, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 (electronic mail: wdb@ncgr.org). Prior to joining NCGR in 1998, Dr. Beavis spent 12 years developing both information systems and statistical methods for Pioneer Hi-Bred International. Since joining NCGR he has been promoted to Director of Science Programs and has directed the development, budgets, and staffing of programs in sequence processing, comparative mapping, gene expression, metabolic pathways, and computational biology. He also acts as coprogram leader for NCGR's Integration program. In addition to his administrative duties, he has maintained his interest in development of statistical methods for genetic research. His current activities include development of inferential analysis methods for m-RNA expression arrays (he is coauthor with Munneke et al. of “A Penalized Dissimilarity Measure and Permutation Confidence Measures for Gene Expression Cluster Analysis,” in progress) and QTL (quantitative trait loci) identification (he is coauthor with R. C. Jansen of Mapping Phenotypic Traits in Plant Breeding Populations on Basis of Haplotypes for Multiple Genetic Markers, in press).