Steve Pettifer

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Steve Pettifer
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Born
Stephen Robert Pettifer

(1970-09-21) September 21, 1970 (age 53) [1] [2]
Alma mater University of Manchester
Known for UTOPIA (Bioinformatics tools)
Utopia Documents
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis An operating environment for large scale virtual reality  (1999)
Doctoral advisor Adrian West [4] [5]
Website aig.cs.man.ac.uk/people/srp
www.manchester.ac.uk/research/steve.pettifer

Stephen Robert Pettifer (born September 21, 1970 [1] ) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in England. [6] [7]

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Education

Pettifer completed his Bachelor of Science degree and PhD in the Department of Computer Science, and work on virtual reality under the supervision of Adrian West in 1999. [4]

Research and career

Pettifer's research interests are centred on the design of advanced interfaces for computer systems, in particular: scientific visualisation, scholarly publishing, and virtual reality. [8] [9] His main research project revolves around Utopia Documents, a novel tool for interacting with the scientific literature.

He is a co-author of the bioinformatics textbook Bioinformatics Challenges at the Interface of Biology and Computer Science: Mind the Gap [10] with Terri Attwood and Dave Thorne.

As of 2017 Pettifer teaches on part of the Advanced Computer Graphics course and Fundamentals of Distributed Systems . [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pettifer, Stephen R. (Stephen Robert), 1970-". Library of Congress . Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  2. 1 2 Anon (2017). "Stephen Pettifer, Lost Island Labs". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 2017-01-24.
  3. ↑ Stephen Pettifer publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  4. 1 2 Pettifer, Stephen Robert (1999). An operating environment for large scale virtual reality (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.488263.
  5. ↑ Pettifer, S.; Cook, J.; Marsh, J.; West, A. (2000). "DEVA3". Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology - VRST '00. p. 33. doi:10.1145/502390.502397. ISBN   978-1581133165. S2CID   14956172.
  6. ↑ Steve Pettifer at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  7. ↑ Kwok, Roberta (2013). "Research impact: Altmetrics make their mark". Nature. 500 (7463): 491–493. doi: 10.1038/nj7463-491a . PMID   23977678.
  8. 1 2 "Dr. Steve Pettifer". Archived from the original on 2013-08-30.
  9. ↑ Herrgård, M. J.; Swainston, N.; Dobson, P.; Dunn, W. B.; Arga, K. Y. I.; Arvas, M.; Blüthgen, N.; Borger, S.; Costenoble, R.; Heinemann, M.; Hucka, M.; Le Novère, N.; Li, P.; Liebermeister, W.; Mo, M. L.; Oliveira, A. P.; Petranovic, D.; Pettifer, S.; Simeonidis, E.; Smallbone, K.; Spasić, I.; Weichart, D.; Brent, R.; Broomhead, D. S.; Westerhoff, H. V.; Kirdar, B. L.; Penttilä, M.; Klipp, E.; Palsson, B. Ø.; Sauer, U.; Oliver, S.G.; Mendes, P.; Nielsen, J.; Kell, D.B. (2008). "A consensus yeast metabolic network reconstruction obtained from a community approach to systems biology". Nature Biotechnology. 26 (10): 1155–1160. doi:10.1038/nbt1492. PMC   4018421 . PMID   18846089.
  10. ↑ Attwood, Teresa K.; Pettifer, Stephen Robert; Thorne, David (2016). Bioinformatics Challenges at the Interface of Biology and Computer Science: Mind the Gap. Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 424. ISBN   9780470035481. OCLC   951190363.
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