Chris Dwan - Bioinformatics

Peer Reviewed Publications

• "Genome Sequence Survey Identifies Unique Sequences and Key Virulence Genes with Unusual Rates of Amino Acid Substitution in Bovine Staphylococcus aureus." Lisa Herron, Rajit Chakravarty, Christopher Dwan, J. Ross Fitzgerald, James M. Musser, Ernest Retzel, Vivek Kapur. Infection and Immunity, July 2002

Bio-IT World Columns

• Dec, 2005: Interfaces Will Save the World
• Aug, 2005: Workflow Environments - A buyers guide
• May, 2005: New Tools for a New Biology
• Nov, 2004: Bridging the gap with web services
• Aug, 2004: Grid Computing: Turning Hype into Reality

Other trade journal columns and articles

• March 2005, Clusterworld: A roll your own bioinformatics grid

Conferences

• October 26, 2005: 5th Virtual Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics. (Talk: BioTeam's iNquiry: Bridging the Gap Between Cluster Computing and the User)
• May 17, 2005: Science Driven Enterprise Grids. (Talk: iNquiry Web Services in the Pharmaceutical Pipeline)
• April, 2004: ClusterWorld Expo. (Talk: "Bioinformatics Workflows, from the Workstation to the Grid")
• March 30, 2004: Bioclusters workshop. Organizer
• February, 2003: 2nd O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference (Talk: How Not To Use BLAST)
• January, 2002: 1st O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference (Talk: "Speedup at what cost? An evaluation of heuristic vs. complete homology search techniques")
• August 2001: IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing. (Poster: "Applying Grid Techniques To Bioinformatics")
• January 2001: Plant and Animal Genome IX. (Poster: "Integrated Data Visualization and Exploration of Genomic Data")
• May 22-25, 2001: Fermi National Accelerator Labs Large Scale Cluster Computing Workshop. (Talk: "BioInformatics")

Tutorials and classes

• October 2005: Inquiry Internals
• Feb 2005: Three day tutorial on cluster computing for bioinformatics at Stanford University
• April 2005: BioPerl (1/2 day , presented at the University of Minnesota)
• July 21, 2002: Global Grid Forum 5. Tutorial: Introduction to Bioinformatics

Non Bioinformatics

• August, 2000: Sensor fusion performance gain for buried mine/UXO detection using GPR, EMI, and MAG sensors. Marble, Jay A., Ackenhusen, John G., Wegrzyn, John W., Mancuso, Joseph, Dwan, Chris M.. Proc. SPIE Vol. 4038, p. 1473-1484, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets V, Abinash C. Dubey; James F. Harvey; J. Thomas Broach; Regina E. Dugan; Eds.
• April, 1998: Neural-network-based target detection system for FLIR imagery Dwan, Chris M., Environmental Research Institute of Michigan International; Der, Sandor Z., U.S. Army Research Lab. Proc. SPIE Vol. 3307, p. 14-21, Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Image Processing III, Nasser M. Nasrabadi; Aggelos K. Katsaggelos; Eds.