The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: William Thompson

To turn the genetic blueprint into a functional organism, genes must be expressed in a specific temporal and spatial pattern. Finding the signals that control this expression and understanding their interactions is a key to learning the language of the genes. One of the first steps in this process is locating the regulatory elements directly encoded in DNA sequences. The focus of my research is to develop computational methods to locate these key regulatory elements.

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I received a Ph.D. in Physics from RPI, but spent a large part of my
career in software development in a variety of fields, including AI and program language design. For the last nine years, I have been involved in computational biology, first at the Wadsworth Labs of the NY State Dept. of Health and now at Brown University. My research has focused on algorithms and software for regulatory motif prediction.

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WILLIAM THOMPSON, Ph.D.,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics (Research)
Applied Mathematics
Phone: +1 401 863 2048
E-mail: William_Thompson_1@brown.edu

William Thompson's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/William_Thompson2

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Center for Computational Molecular Biology

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