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 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 o Predicting of promoter regions Protein-DNA interaction o verifying the specificity and affinity of protein-DNA bindings Identifying non-protein coding functional sites in DNA

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

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