Norman Paton

Last updated

Norman Paton
Born
Norman William Paton
Alma mater University of Aberdeen
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis A Prolog implementation of an object-oriented database system  (1989)
Doctoral advisor Peter M. D. Gray [6] [7]
Website

Norman William Paton is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK [5] [8] [9] [10] [11] where he co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG) [12] with Carole Goble.

Contents

Education

Paton was educated at the University of Aberdeen where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science in 1986 and a PhD in 1989 for research into object-oriented database systems using Prolog [13] [14] [15] supervised by Peter Gray. [6]

Research

Paton's research interests are currently in distributed information management including dataspaces, [16] [17] [18] query processing in wireless sensor networks, [19] [20] autonomic computing, workflow management, and data management for systems biology. [21] [22] His research has been funded by the EPSRC, [23] the BBSRC [24] and the European Union.

Paton has also been active in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), [25] Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) [3] and the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB). [24]

Teaching

Paton has taught on several database courses at undergraduates and postgraduate level.

Administration

Paton has had a variety of roles in the School of Computer Science including director of the research school, director of teaching strategy, and head of school from November 2008 [26] to November 2011. [27]

Related Research Articles

Prolog is a logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.

In bioinformatics, BLAST is an algorithm and program for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of proteins or the nucleotides of DNA and/or RNA sequences. A BLAST search enables a researcher to compare a subject protein or nucleotide sequence with a library or database of sequences, and identify database sequences that resemble the query sequence above a certain threshold. For example, following the discovery of a previously unknown gene in the mouse, a scientist will typically perform a BLAST search of the human genome to see if humans carry a similar gene; BLAST will identify sequences in the human genome that resemble the mouse gene based on similarity of sequence.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">BioPerl</span> Collection of Perl modules for bioinformatics

BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. It has played an integral role in the Human Genome Project.

In cryptography, a private information retrieval (PIR) protocol is a protocol that allows a user to retrieve an item from a server in possession of a database without revealing which item is retrieved. PIR is a weaker version of 1-out-of-n oblivious transfer, where it is also required that the user should not get information about other database items.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Smith–Waterman algorithm</span> Algorithm for determining similar regions between two molecular sequences

The Smith–Waterman algorithm performs local sequence alignment; that is, for determining similar regions between two strings of nucleic acid sequences or protein sequences. Instead of looking at the entire sequence, the Smith–Waterman algorithm compares segments of all possible lengths and optimizes the similarity measure.

The Protein Information Resource (PIR), located at Georgetown University Medical Center, is an integrated public bioinformatics resource to support genomic and proteomic research, and scientific studies. It contains protein sequences databases

Patrick John Hayes FAAAI is a British computer scientist who lives and works in the United States. As of March 2006, he is a senior research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amos Bairoch</span>

Amos Bairoch is a Swiss bioinformatician and Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Human Protein Sciences of the University of Geneva where he leads the CALIPHO group at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) combining bioinformatics, curation, and experimental efforts to functionally characterize human proteins.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carole Goble</span> British computer scientist

Carole Anne Goble, is a British academic who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. She is principal investigator (PI) of the myGrid, BioCatalogue and myExperiment projects and co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG) with Norman Paton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Apache Taverna</span>

Apache Taverna was an open source software tool for designing and executing workflows, initially created by the myGrid project under the name Taverna Workbench, then a project under the Apache incubator. Taverna allowed users to integrate many different software components, including WSDL SOAP or REST Web services, such as those provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the European Bioinformatics Institute, the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ), SoapLab, BioMOBY and EMBOSS. The set of available services was not finite and users could import new service descriptions into the Taverna Workbench.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Stevens (scientist)</span>

Robert David Stevens is a professor of bio-health informatics. and former Head of Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester

The BioCatalogue is a curated catalogue of Life Science Web Services. The BioCatalogue was launched in June 2009 at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference. The project is a collaboration between the myGrid project at the University of Manchester led by Carole Goble and the European Bioinformatics Institute led by Rodrigo Lopez. It is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Dataspaces are an abstraction in data management that aim to overcome some of the problems encountered in data integration system. The aim is to reduce the effort required to set up a data integration system by relying on existing matching and mapping generation techniques, and to improve the system in "pay-as-you-go" fashion as it is used. Labor-intensive aspects of data integration are postponed until they are absolutely needed.

Edward Marcotte is a professor of biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, working in genetics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. Marcotte is an example of a computational biologist who also relies on experiments to validate bioinformatics-based predictions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rolf Apweiler</span>

Rolf Apweiler is a director of European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) with Ewan Birney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Terri Attwood</span> British bioinformatics researcher

Teresa K. Attwood is a professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Computer Science and School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester and a visiting fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at University College London (UCL) from 1993 to 1999 and at the University of Manchester from 1999 to 2002.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Christoph Steinbeck</span> German chemist (born 1966)

Christoph Steinbeck is a German chemist and has a professorship for analytical chemistry, cheminformatics and chemometrics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Thuringia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andy Brass</span>

Andrew M. Brass is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Manchester in the Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Life Sciences.

Open PHACTS was a European initiative public–private partnership between academia, publishers, enterprises, pharmaceutical companies and other organisations working to enable better, cheaper and faster drug discovery. It has been funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative, selected as part of three projects to "design methods for common standards and sharing of data for more efficient drug development and patient treatment in the future".

References

  1. 1 2 Paton, Norman W.; Díaz, Oscar (1999). "Active database systems" (PDF). ACM Computing Surveys . 31: 63–103. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.34.8207 . doi:10.1145/311531.311623. S2CID   207770770.
  2. ↑ Stevens, R.; Baker, P.; Bechhofer, S.; Ng, G.; Jacoby, A.; Paton, N. W.; Goble, C. A.; Brass, A. (2000). "TAMBIS: Transparent Access to Multiple Bioinformatics Information Sources". Bioinformatics. 16 (2): 184–185. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/16.2.184 . PMID   10842744.
  3. 1 2 Taylor, C. F.; Paton, N. W.; Lilley, K. S.; Binz, P. A.; Julian Jr, R. K.; Jones, A. R.; Zhu, W.; Apweiler, R.; Aebersold, R.; Deutsch, E. W.; Dunn, M. J.; Heck, A. J. R.; Leitner, A.; Macht, M.; Mann, M.; Martens, L.; Neubert, T. A.; Patterson, S. D.; Ping, P.; Seymour, S. L.; Souda, P.; Tsugita, A.; Vandekerckhove, J.; Vondriska, T. M.; Whitelegge, J. P.; Wilkins, M. R.; Xenarios, I.; Yates Jr, J. R.; Hermjakob, H. (2007). "The minimum information about a proteomics experiment (MIAPE)". Nature Biotechnology. 25 (8): 887–893. doi: 10.1038/nbt1329 . PMID   17687369.
  4. ↑ Pedrioli, P. G. A.; Eng, J. K.; Hubley, R.; Vogelzang, M.; Deutsch, E. W.; Raught, B.; Pratt, B.; Nilsson, E.; Angeletti, R. H.; Apweiler, R.; Cheung, K.; Costello, C. E.; Hermjakob, H.; Huang, S.; Julian, R. K.; Kapp, E.; McComb, M. E.; Oliver, S. G.; Omenn, G.; Paton, N. W.; Simpson, R.; Smith, R.; Taylor, C. F.; Zhu, W.; Aebersold, R. (2004). "A common open representation of mass spectrometry data and its application to proteomics research". Nature Biotechnology. 22 (11): 1459–1466. doi:10.1038/nbt1031. PMID   15529173. S2CID   25734712.
  5. 1 2 Norman Paton publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  6. 1 2 Norman Paton at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  7. ↑ Paton, N. W.; Gray, P.M.D. (1990). "Optimising and Executing DAPLEX Queries using Prolog". The Computer Journal . 33 (6): 547–555. doi: 10.1093/comjnl/33.6.547 .
  8. ↑ Norman Paton publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  9. ↑ Norman W. Paton at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  10. ↑ Norman Paton's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  11. ↑ Norman Paton author profile page at the ACM Digital Library OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  12. ↑ Information Management Group at the University of Manchester
  13. ↑ Paton, Norman William (1989). A Prolog implementation of an object-oriented database system (PhD thesis). University of Aberdeen.
  14. ↑ Gray, P. M.; Moffat, D. S.; Paton, N. W. (1988). "A Prolog interface to a Functional Data Model database". Advances in Database Technology—EDBT '88. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 303. p. 34. doi:10.1007/3-540-19074-0_46. ISBN   978-3-540-19074-5.
  15. ↑ Paton, N. W.; Gray, P. M. D. (1988). "Identification of database objects by key". Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 334. p. 280. doi:10.1007/3-540-50345-5_25. ISBN   978-3-540-50345-3.
  16. ↑ Guo, Chenjuan (2011). Inferring Information about Correspondencies between Data sources for Dataspaces (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  17. ↑ Belhajjame, K.; Paton, N. W.; Embury, S. M.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Hedeler, C. (2013). "Incrementally improving dataspaces based on user feedback". Information Systems . 38 (5): 656. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.303.1957 . doi:10.1016/j.is.2013.01.006.
  18. ↑ Belhajjame, K.; Paton, N. W.; Embury, S. M.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Hedeler, C. (2010). "Feedback-based annotation, selection and refinement of schema mappings for dataspaces" (PDF). Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology - EDBT '10. p. 573. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.298.3519 . doi:10.1145/1739041.1739110. ISBN   9781605589459.
  19. ↑ Galpin, I.; Brenninkmeijer, C. Y. A.; Gray, A. J. G.; Jabeen, F.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Paton, N. W. (2010). "SNEE: A query processor for wireless sensor networks" (PDF). Distributed and Parallel Databases. 29 (1–2): 31–85. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.220.9109 . doi:10.1007/s10619-010-7074-3. S2CID   45589.
  20. ↑ Galpin, I.; Taylor, R.; Gray, A. J. G.; Brenninkmeijer, C. Y. A.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Paton, N. W. (2011). "Executing In-network Queries Using SNEE". Advances in Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7051. p. 136. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24577-0_15. ISBN   978-3-642-24576-3.
  21. ↑ Swainston, N.; Smallbone, K.; Mendes, P.; Kell, D.; Paton, N. (2011). "The SuBliMinaL Toolbox: Automating steps in the reconstruction of metabolic networks". Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics. 8 (2): 186. doi: 10.1515/jib-2011-186 . PMID   22095399.
  22. ↑ Castrillo, J. I.; Zeef, L. A.; Hoyle, D. C.; Zhang, N.; Hayes, A.; Gardner, D. C.; Cornell, M. J.; Petty, J.; Hakes, L.; Wardleworth, L.; Rash, B.; Brown, M.; Dunn, W. B.; Broadhurst, D.; O'Donoghue, K.; Hester, S. S.; Dunkley, T. P.; Hart, S. R.; Swainston, N.; Li, P.; Gaskell, S. J.; Paton, N. W.; Lilley, K. S.; Kell, D. B.; Oliver, S. G. (2007). "Growth control of the eukaryote cell: A systems biology study in yeast". Journal of Biology. 6 (2): 4. doi:10.1186/jbiol54. PMC   2373899 . PMID   17439666.
  23. ↑ Grants awarded to Norman Paton by the EPSRC
  24. 1 2 Grants awarded to Norman Paton by the BBSRC
  25. ↑ Antonioletti, M.; Atkinson, M.; Baxter, R.; Borley, A.; Chue Hong, N. P.; Collins, B.; Hardman, N.; Hume, A. C.; Knox, A.; Jackson, M.; Krause, A.; Laws, S.; Magowan, J.; Paton, N. W.; Pearson, D.; Sugden, T.; Watson, P.; Westhead, M. (2005). "The design and implementation of Grid database services in OGSA-DAI". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 17 (2–4): 357. doi:10.1002/cpe.939. S2CID   911042.
  26. ↑ "News from Head of School". 16 June 2008. Archived from the original on 3 October 2019.
  27. ↑ "News from Head of School". 21 February 2011. Archived from the original on 3 October 2019.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Chris Taylor
 Head of the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
2008–2011		Succeeded by
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.