Jonathan Wren (biologist)

Jonathan Daniel Wren
Alma materUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Oklahoma
Known fordata mining, genetics
Scientific career
InstitutionsOklahoma Medical Research Foundation
ThesisThe IRIDESCENT System: An Automated Data-Mining Method to Identify, Evaluate, and Analyze Sets of Relationships Within Textual Databases (2003)
Doctoral advisorHarold Garner

Jonathan D. Wren is a scientific investigator at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation[1] in the Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.[2]

Wren received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2003,[3] and immediately after began his independent research career at the University of Oklahoma.[4] He moved to OMRF in 2007. His bioinformatics research focuses on developing computational methods of inferring logical conclusions from extremely large bodies of unstructured or semi-structured measurements and/or facts.[5] He has been recognized for his work in text mining,[6] studies on URL decay (link rot) in scientific publications,[7] plagiarism detection[8] and for discovering the function of uncharacterized human genes.[9] Wren is an Associate Editor for the journal Bioinformatics.

References

  1. ^ "Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) - Wren, Jonathan". OMRF. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  2. ^ "Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Adjunct Faculty". oumedicine.com. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  3. ^ IRIDESCENT System: An Automated Data-Mining Method to Identify, Evaluate, and Analyze Sets of Relationships Within Textual Databases (Thesis). Repositories.tdl.org. 2003-02-01. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  4. ^ "Office of Technology Development | University of Oklahoma". otd.ou.edu. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  5. ^ PubMed (2012-05-24). "wren jd - articles in PubMed at NCBI". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  6. ^ "Researchers develop computer application to 'read' medical literature, find significant data relationships". UTSouthWestern.edu. 2004-01-22. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  7. ^ Whitfield, John (2004). "Web links leave abstracts going nowhere". Nature. 428 (6983): 592. Bibcode:2004Natur.428..592W. doi:10.1038/428592a. PMID 15071567.
  8. ^ "OMRF scientist Wren helps develop anti-plagiarism tool". Secure.omrf.org. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  9. ^ "Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) - OMRF's "cyber-sleuth" hunts new genes". OMRF. Retrieved 2012-07-07.