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Gary Stormo

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. Also working at Stormo Lab

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Gary Stormo

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  1. Gary Stormo by Andrew Bardee

  2. 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

  3. Current Employment • 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 • Predicting of promoter regions • Protein-DNA interaction • verifying the specificity and affinity of protein-DNA bindings  • Identifying non-protein coding functional sites in DNA

  4. 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 • Predicting of promoter regions • Protein-DNA interaction • determining the specificity and affinity of protein-DNA bindings  • Identifying non-protein coding functional sites in DNA

  5. Tools developed • 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 

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