Gary Stormo

by Andrew Bardee

History

• Born 1950 in South Dakota• Undergraduate in Biology

from Caltech• PhD in Molecular Biology

from University of Colorado• Currently a professor at

Washington University Medical School

Current Employment

• Also working at Stormo Lab• Editor of Bioinformatics, Current Protocols in Bioinformatics• Deputy Executive Editor for PLoS Computational Biology• Editorial Board: Genetics, Nucleic Acids Research, and

more.• Fellow for the International Society of Computational Biology• Also working at Stormo Lab

WorkHas worked on the following:• Analysing RNA secondary structures• Identifying transcription factor binding sites• regulation of gene expression

o Predicting of promoter regions• Protein-DNA interaction

o verifying the specificity and affinity of protein-DNA bindings 

• Identifying non-protein coding functional sites in DNA

Work

Has worked on the following:• Analysing RNA secondary structures• Identifying regulatory motifs, specific patterns in DNA • Identifying transcription factor binding sites• regulation of gene expression

o Predicting of promoter regions• Protein-DNA interaction

o determining the specificity and affinity of protein-DNA bindings 

• Identifying non-protein coding functional sites in DNA

Tools developed

• BEEML: a tool to estimate binding energy• PromFD: Predicts promoter regions• LOCUS, GeneParser: Finding genes in genomes• RNASampler: Predicts RNA secondary structure• Consensus: finds patterns in DNA and proteins• APACE: automated protein annotator