Participants

Name	Sebastian Bassi
E-mail	sbassi@genesdigitales.com
Affiliation	Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
Location	Balcarce, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Uses Python for	Bioinformatics and data manipulation
Work/Research Interests	IT Manager Advanta Seeds in Balcarce Research Station
Biopython Contributions	LCC and primer Tm calculation function
Relevant URL	http://www.bioinformatica.info

Name	Jeffrey Chang
E-mail	jchang@smi.stanford.edu
Affiliation	Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University
Location	Durham, NC
Uses Python for	Eating spam
Work/Research Interests	Bioinformatics
Biopython Contributions	Co-Founder
Relevant URL	http://www.jeffchang.com/

Name	Brad Chapman
E-mail	chapmanb@uga.edu
Affiliation	University of Georgia
Location	Athens, GA
Uses Python for	Impressing my friends and family
Work/Research Interests	Evolution by whole genome duplication in plants
Biopython Contributions	Docs, GenBank, BioSQL, BioCORBA
Relevant URL	http://www.bioinformatics.org/bradstuff

Name	Peter Cock
E-mail	See my web page
Affiliation	MOAC Doctoral Training Centre, University of Warwick
Location	Coventry, England, UK
Uses Python for	Bioinformatics, controlling R with rpy, ...
Work/Research Interests	Bacterial signalling
Biopython Contributions	Sequence parsing including Bio.SeqIO, and the EMBL and GenBank parsers
Relevant URL	http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/moac/currentstudents/peter_cock/python/

Name	Andrew Dalke
E-mail	dalke@dalkescientific.com
Affiliation	Dalke Scientific Software, LLC
Location	Santa Fe, NM
Uses Python for	Just about anything
Work/Research Interests	Large-scale usable systems for scientists
Biopython Contributions	Co-Founder, Seq, Martel, indexing, EUtils, patterns, parsing, ...
Relevant URL	http://www.dalkescientific.com/

Name	Michiel de Hoon
E-mail	See my web page
Affiliation	Columbia University
Location	New York
Uses Python for	Systems Biology; Plotting
Work/Research Interests	Microbiology
Biopython Contributions	Bio.Cluster; Windows installer; self-proclaimed Biopython portability whip
Relevant URL	http://bonsai.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~mdehoon

Name	Iddo Friedberg
E-mail	idoerg "at" burnham.org
Affiliation	The Burnham Institute
Location	La-Jolla, CA, USA
Uses Python for	Maintaining World Domination
Work/Research Interests	Structural Bioinformatics
Biopython Contributions	SubsMat, FSSP, bits of Align, bits of the Manual, and a lot of silly questions to the lists
Relevant URL	http://iddo-friedberg.org

Name	Christian Gunning
E-mail	bioboy at uga dot edu
Affiliation	human, mountain
Location	Athens, GA
Uses Python for	strings, as glue; also on laundry and dirty dishes
Work/Research Interests	arabidopsis; Biological Sequence Analysis, Durbin et al.; Primer3; www.swig.org; R programming language and rpy.sourceforge.net
Biopython Contributions
Relevant URL	http://www.botany.uga.edu/courses/bioinformatics/current/index.html

Name	Thomas Hamelryck
E-mail	thamelry - binf ku dk
Affiliation	University of Copenhagen
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Uses Python for	Annoying FORTRAN programmers
Work/Research Interests	Structural bioinformatics
Biopython Contributions	Bio.PDB, KDTree, SVDSuperimposer
Relevant URL	http://www.binf.ku.dk/users/thamelry

Name	Michael Hoffman
E-mail	grouse at alumni period utexas period net
Affiliation	The University of Texas at Austin
Location	Austin, TX, USA
Uses Python for	Biopython!
Work/Research Interests	RNA, Genome annotations
Biopython Contributions	Bio.GFF, Bio.DocSQL
Relevant URL	http://spice.cc.utexas.edu/~grouse/

Name	Frank Kauff
E-mail	fkauff at duke edu
Affiliation	Duke University
Location	Durham, NC, USA
Uses Python for	Phylogenetics and everything else
Work/Research Interests	Phylogenetics and all that's related
Biopython Contributions	Phd (with C. Cox), Ace
Relevant URL	http://www.lutzonilab.net/member/frankkauff.shtml

Name	Chris Lasher
E-mail	chris.lasher@gmail.com
Affiliation	Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Location	Blacksburg, VA
Uses Python for	Putting the joy back in programming
Work/Research Interests	Bacterial genomics
Biopython Contributions	Subversion migration
Relevant URL	http://gotgenes.com/

Name	Bartek Wilczyński
E-mail	bartek_AT_rezolwenta.eu.org
Affiliation	Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Science
Location	Warsaw, Poland
Uses Python for	most of his computations
Work/Research Interests	mathematical models of gene regulation
Biopython Contributions	Bio.AlignAce
Relevant URL	http://bartek.rezolwenta.eu.org

Name	Harry Zuzan
E-mail	iliketobicycle@yahoo.ca
Affiliation	Genome Quebec
Location	Montreal
Uses Python for	you name it
Work/Research Interests	Statistics applied to molecular biology and genetics
Biopython Contributions	Affy package for Affymetrix data
Relevant URL	http://www.oligopython.org