Jonathan Wren (biologist)

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Jonathan Daniel Wren
Alma mater University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Oklahoma
Known for data mining, genetics
Scientific career
Institutions Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Thesis The IRIDESCENT System: An Automated Data-Mining Method to Identify, Evaluate, and Analyze Sets of Relationships Within Textual Databases  (2003)
Doctoral advisor Harold Garner

Jonathan D. Wren is a scientific investigator at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation [1] in the Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. [2]

Wren received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2003, [3] and immediately after began his independent research career at the University of Oklahoma. [4] He moved to OMRF in 2007. His bioinformatics research focuses on developing computational methods of inferring logical conclusions from extremely large bodies of unstructured or semi-structured measurements and/or facts. [5] He has been recognized for his work in text mining, [6] studies on URL decay (link rot) in scientific publications, [7] plagiarism detection [8] and for discovering the function of uncharacterized human genes. [9] Wren is an Associate Editor for the journal Bioinformatics.

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References

  1. "Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) - Wren, Jonathan". OMRF. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  2. "Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Adjunct Faculty". oumedicine.com. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  3. IRIDESCENT System: An Automated Data-Mining Method to Identify, Evaluate, and Analyze Sets of Relationships Within Textual Databases (Thesis). Repositories.tdl.org. 2003-02-01. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  4. "Office of Technology Development | University of Oklahoma". otd.ou.edu. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  5. PubMed (2012-05-24). "wren jd - articles in PubMed at NCBI". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  6. "Researchers develop computer application to 'read' medical literature, find significant data relationships". UTSouthWestern.edu. 2004-01-22. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  7. Whitfield, John (2004). "Web links leave abstracts going nowhere". Nature. 428 (6983): 592. Bibcode:2004Natur.428..592W. doi: 10.1038/428592a . PMID   15071567.
  8. "OMRF scientist Wren helps develop anti-plagiarism tool". Secure.omrf.org. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  9. "Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) - OMRF's "cyber-sleuth" hunts new genes". OMRF. Retrieved 2012-07-07.