| James Tisdall | James Tisdall has worked as a musician, as a programmer and member of technical staff at Bell Labs (where he programmed for speech research and discovered a formal language for musical rhythm), as a programmer and systems manager at the Human Genome Project in the Computational Biology and Informatics Laboratory (where he began using Perl for bioinformatics in 1991 with his program DNA WorkBench), as computational biologist at Mercator Genetics in Menlo Park, California (where his Perl programs helped discover the gene involved in the common hereditary disease hemochromatosis), as manager of Bioinformatics at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, and most recently as a consultant for Biocomputing Associates of Kimberton, Pennsylvania, and the Burke Research Institute affiliated with Cornell University, working on neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. |
