Andrew Gibson

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Background

Andrew Gibson received his Master of Research Degree in Bioinformatics at the University of Leeds in 2001. He then went on to complete a PhD in Genetics at The University of Manchester in 2005 with his thesis “Comparative Analysis of Vertebrate Mitochondrial Genomes”.

Andrew has become a cross disciplinary researcher, completing two Post-doctoral positions in the Computer Science department at the University of Manchester. In these roles he gained skills in advanced technologies and methodologies in the fields of e-Science and the Semantic Web. He moved to the Biosystems Data Analysis group in July 2008 for his third Post-Doctoral position, and is now the Project Leader of the BioExpert project.

Research Interests

Andrew is interested in coordinating e-Science and Semantic Web technologies and principles and applying them to major challenges in data and knowledge management in the Life Sciences. Technologies of interest include scientific workflows and web services, SKOS vocabularies, OWL ontologies and computational reasoning. In applying these technologies, Andrew has a strong interest in Knowledge Representation and the tools required to capture and express the diverse knowledge in the Life Science domain.

As project leader of the BioExpert project, Andrew is expressing these interests in the design of a Semantic Web knowledge base architecture that focuses on knowledge capture from domain experts, and the application of this architecture to a prototype knowledge base containing expert-derived knowledge about the Peroxisome. In the Bio-systems data analysis group, Andrew is also working on ways of representing data and knowledge to support the statistical analysis of data by providing structured and queryable background prior knowledge that may help to identify components in the data.