Brian Osborne is a Principal Investigator for BioTeam, specializing in informatics and next-generation sequencing. He brings a deep understanding of molecular biology and bioinformatics and has collaborated extensively with biologists, chemists, and software developers in academia and pharma. Osborne studied the molecular biology of the yeast Saccharomyces at MIT and did post-doctoral work on plant genetics and genomics at UC Berkeley. Subsequently he was a lead bioinformaticist for the group that sequenced and annotated Arabidopsis chromosome 1. He has been Director of Information Technology at OSI Pharmaceuticals, a Group Leader of Bioinformatics at Cadus Pharmaceuticals, and CTO at Cognia Corporation. At his own consulting company he worked on a variety of open source and commercial projects, with an emphasis on data integration, technical documentation, and data visualization. He is a long-time core contributor to the open source community, including the Bioperl bioinformatics toolkit and the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD). |