Andy Brass

Andy Brass
Born	Andrew M. Brass United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics
Institutions	University of Edinburgh McMaster University University of Manchester Stannington Brass Band Department of Computer Science Faculty of Life Sciences
Thesis	Molecular dynamics simulations of fluorite structure crystals  (1987)
Website	manchester.ac.uk/research/andy.brass

Andrew M. Brass is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Manchester in the Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Life Sciences. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Education

Brass was educated at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his PhD on Solid-state physics in 1987. ^[6]

Research

Following his PhD, Brass worked at McMaster University ^{[7] [8]} in Canada on a NATO fellowship to study aspects of high-temperature superconductivity and strongly coupled electron systems. In 1990 he moved to the University of Manchester ^{[9] [10]} to become a founding member of the bioinformatics group, where he has a wide range of projects in protein function prediction, gene expression analysis, intelligent integration, ^[11] automated curation, ^[12] and bioinformatics education. ^[13]

References

1. Andy Brass publications indexed by Google Scholar
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3. Andy Brass at DBLP Bibliography Server
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5. Andy Brass author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
6. Brass, Andrew (1987). Molecular dynamics simulations of fluorite structure crystals (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh.
7. Jensen, H.; Brass, A.; Berlinsky, A. (1988). "Lattice deformations and plastic flow through bottlenecks in a two-dimensional model for flux pinning in type-II superconductors". Physical Review Letters. 60 (16): 1676–1679. Bibcode:1988PhRvL..60.1676J. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.1676. PMID   10038108.
8. Jensen, H.; Brass, A.; Brechet, Y.; Berlinsky, A. (1988). "Current-voltage characteristics in a two-dimensional model for flux flow in type-II superconductors". Physical Review B. 38 (13): 9235–9237. Bibcode:1988PhRvB..38.9235J. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.38.9235. PMID   9945721.
9. Scott, J. E.; Cummings, C.; Brass, A.; Chen, Y. (1991). "Secondary and tertiary structures of hyaluronan in aqueous solution, investigated by rotary shadowing-electron microscopy and computer simulation. Hyaluronan is a very efficient network-forming polymer". The Biochemical Journal. 274 (Pt 3): 699–705. doi:10.1042/bj2740699. PMC   1149968 . PMID   2012600.
10. Tuckwell, D. S.; Brass, A.; Humphries, M. J. (1992). "Homology modelling of integrin EF-hands. Evidence for widespread use of a conserved cation-binding site". The Biochemical Journal. 285 (Pt 1): 325–331. doi:10.1042/bj2850325. PMC   1132784 . PMID   1322124.
11. Lord, P. W.; Stevens, R. D.; Brass, A.; Goble, C. A. (2003). "Investigating semantic similarity measures across the Gene Ontology: The relationship between sequence and annotation". Bioinformatics. 19 (10): 1275–1283. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.561.1240 . doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg153 . PMID   12835272.
12. Taylor, C. F.; Paton, N. W.; Garwood, K. L.; Kirby, P. D.; Stead, D. A.; Yin, Z.; Deutsch, E. W.; Selway, L.; Walker, J.; Riba-Garcia, I.; Mohammed, S.; Deery, M. J.; Howard, J. A.; Dunkley, T.; Aebersold, R.; Kell, D. B.; Lilley, K. S.; Roepstorff, P.; Yates Jr, J. R.; Brass, A.; Brown, A. J. P.; Cash, P.; Gaskell, S. J.; Hubbard, S. J.; Oliver, S. G. (2003). "A systematic approach to modeling, capturing, and disseminating proteomics experimental data". Nature Biotechnology. 21 (3): 247–254. doi:10.1038/nbt0303-247. PMID   12610571. S2CID   6760924.
13. Goble, C. A.; Stevens, R.; Ng, G.; Bechhofer, S.; Paton, N. W.; Baker, P. G.; Peim, M.; Brass, A. (2001). "Transparent access to multiple bioinformatics information sources" (PDF). IBM Systems Journal. 40 (2): 532–551. doi:10.1147/sj.402.0532.