Organizing Committee Member
David Wishart
Director
The Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC)
Canada
Biography
Dr. Wishart currently supervises over 40 students, staff and post-doctoral fellows. Since 1990 he has published more than 300 papers and presented over 300 posters/abstracts. He has delivered more than 300 invited lectures all over the world on a variety of topics, including cutting edge bioinformatics tools, drug design, metabolomics, precision medicine, general sequence analysis, gene finding, protein annotation, protein structure analysis, structure prediction, biomedical text mining, cellular simulation, nanobot design and synthetic biology. He is responsible for the creation of metabolomics databases in Edmonton that receive over 20 million hits a year, thus making Edmonton the centre of the world's most influential metabolomics databases. He has developed automated metabolomics profiling software that reduces data processing time by up to 90%. He has also help to pioneer many of the necessary technical, software and database developments to enable metabolomics to enter the scientific mainstream. Dr. Wishart is also the Director of The Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC), which is Canada's national metabolomics platform. He has been cited over 40,000 times and is an inventor on several patents.
Research Area
Areas Algorithmics Bioinformatics Database Systems Machine Learning Interests Bioinformatics, analytical chemistry, simulations, computational biology, structural biology.