Participants

Note: People are listed here alphabetically by surname. This is only a partial listing, see also the contributor listing in the Biopython source code.

Tiago Antao

E-mail	tiagoantao@gmail.com
Affiliation	Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Location	Liverpool, UK
Uses Python for	Almost all programming stuff
Work/Research Interests	Population genetics, Infectious diseases (malaria), domain specific languages (DSLs) and declarative programming, pharmacology
Biopython Contributions	Bio.PopGen
Relevant URL	http://tiago.org

Sebastian Bassi

E-mail	sbassi@genesdigitales.com
Affiliation	Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
Location	Balcarce, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Uses Python for	Bioinformatics and data manipulation
Work/Research Interests	IT Manager Advanta Seeds in Balcarce Research Station
Biopython Contributions	LCC and primer Tm calculation function
Relevant URL	http://www.bioinformatica.info

Jeffrey Chang

E-mail	jchang@smi.stanford.edu
Affiliation	Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University
Location	Durham, NC
Uses Python for	Eating spam
Work/Research Interests	Bioinformatics
Biopython Contributions	Co-Founder
Relevant URL	http://www.jeffchang.com/

Brad Chapman

Affiliation	Massachusetts General Hospital
Location	Boston, MA
Biopython Contributions	Docs, GenBank, BioSQL
Relevant URL	http://bcbio.wordpress.com/

Peter Cock

E-mail	See my web page
Affiliation	Plant Pathology, SCRI; previously MOAC Doctoral Training Centre, University of Warwick
Location	Dundee, Scotland, UK
Uses Python for	Bioinformatics, controlling R with rpy, ...
Work/Research Interests	Bacterial signalling, genomics
Biopython Contributions	Sequence parsing including Bio.SeqIO, Bio.AlignIO, our BioSQL interface, and documentation
Relevant URL	http://www.scri.ac.uk/staff/petercock and http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/peter_cock/python/
github	http://github.com/peterjc

Andrew Dalke

E-mail	dalke@dalkescientific.com
Affiliation	Dalke Scientific Software, LLC
Location	Santa Fe, NM
Uses Python for	Just about anything
Work/Research Interests	Large-scale usable systems for scientists
Biopython Contributions	Co-Founder, Seq, Martel, indexing, EUtils, patterns, parsing, ...
Relevant URL	http://www.dalkescientific.com/

Michiel de Hoon

E-mail	See my web page
Affiliation	RIKEN Omics Science Center
Location	Yokohama
Uses Python for	High-throughput data analysis & Scientific visualization
Work/Research Interests	RNA Genomics
Biopython Contributions	Bio.Cluster; Bio.Entrez; Windows installer
Relevant URL	http://bonsai.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~mdehoon
External links	http://www.pavtube.com/blu-ray-ripper-mac/

Iddo Friedberg

E-mail	idoerg "at" gmail.com
Affiliation	University of California San Diego
Location	La-Jolla, CA, USA
Uses Python for	Maintaining World Domination
Work/Research Interests	Structural Bioinformatics, metagenomics
Biopython Contributions	SubsMat, FSSP, bits of Align, bits of the Manual, and a lot of silly questions to the lists
Relevant URL	http://iddo-friedberg.org

Christian Gunning

E-mail	bioboy at uga dot edu
Affiliation	human, mountain
Location	Athens, GA
Uses Python for	strings, as glue; also on laundry and dirty dishes
Work/Research Interests	arabidopsis; Biological Sequence Analysis, Durbin et al.; Primer3; www.swig.org; R programming language and rpy.sourceforge.net
Biopython Contributions
Relevant URL	http://www.botany.uga.edu/courses/bioinformatics/current/index.html

Thomas Hamelryck

E-mail	thamelry - binf ku dk
Affiliation	University of Copenhagen
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Uses Python for	Annoying FORTRAN programmers
Work/Research Interests	Structural bioinformatics
Biopython Contributions	Bio.PDB, KDTree, SVDSuperimposer
Relevant URL	http://www.binf.ku.dk/users/thamelry

Michael Hoffman

E-mail	grouse at alumni period utexas period net
Affiliation	The University of Texas at Austin
Location	Austin, TX, USA
Uses Python for	Biopython!
Work/Research Interests	RNA, Genome annotations
Biopython Contributions	Bio.GFF, Bio.DocSQL
Relevant URL	http://spice.cc.utexas.edu/~grouse/

Frank Kauff

E-mail	fkauff at biologie uni-kl de
Affiliation	University of Kaiserslautern
Location	Kaiserslautern, Germany
Uses Python for	Phylogenetics and everything else
Work/Research Interests	Phylogenetics and all that's related, Fungi, Lichens, Cyanobacteria
Biopython Contributions	Phd, Ace, Nexus (mostly with C. Cox)
Relevant URL	http://www.uni-kl.de/wcms/ag-kauff.html

Chris Lasher

E-mail	chris.lasher@gmail.com
Affiliation	Virginia Tech
Location	Blacksburg, VA
Uses Python for	Putting the joy back in programming
Work/Research Interests	Data mining
Biopython Contributions	Antagonist, minor bug contributions
GitHub	http://github.com/gotgenes
Relevant URL	http://gotgenes.com/

Leighton Pritchard

E-mail	lpritc(squiggly symbol)scri ac uk
Affiliation	Scottish Crop Research Institute
Location	Invergowrie, Scotland
Uses Python for	Generally when I have to explain to a computer exactly what I want it to do
Work/Research Interests	Comparative genomics; Systems Biology; Protein sequence-structure-function relationships; Plant host-pathogen interactions and genomics (heavy on the pathogens).
Biopython Contributions	GenomeDiagram, bits and bobs
Relevant URL	http://www.scri.ac.uk/staff/leightonpritchard

Bartek Wilczyński

E-mail	bartek_AT_rezolwenta.eu.org
Affiliation	Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Science
Location	Warsaw, Poland
Uses Python for	most of his computations
Work/Research Interests	mathematical models of gene regulation
Biopython Contributions	Bio.AlignAce
Relevant URL	http://bartek.rezolwenta.eu.org

Harry Zuzan

E-mail	iliketobicycle@yahoo.ca
Affiliation	Genome Quebec
Location	Montreal
Uses Python for	you name it
Work/Research Interests	Statistics applied to molecular biology and genetics
Biopython Contributions	Affy package for Affymetrix data
Relevant URL	http://www.oligopython.org