David Konerding
David Konerding,
Ph.D. (dek@konerding.com) is a Senior Lead Engineer at Insitro.
Previously, he was Staff Software Engineer at Google, Senior Architect for
Research Computing
at Genentech,
Computer Scientist in the
Distributed Systems Department at
the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory. a postdoctoral scholar for
Steven
Brenner and
Kimmen
Sjolander at
UC Berkeley, a programmer for the
Computer Graphics Lab and a
graduate student in the Doctoral
Program of the Graduate Group in Biophysics at
the University of California, San
Francisco.
His current scientific interests include:
- Applications of Data Engineering Principles to High Throughput Machine Learning Drug Discovery
- Here are my scientific publications
Past interests, which are not being actively pursued:
- Research into Computational Grid Technologies, promoting the use of Grid Technologies in computational biology and chemistry
- Functional characterization of anti-cancer nucleosides such as gemcitabine, cytarabine, and 5-fluoro-uracil
- Use of NMR and
molecular
dynamics simulations to understand the energetics of protein/nucleic acid interactions
- Structural and Functional Genomics
- Rapid, accurate functional classification of structural genomics targets
- Evaluation of sequence comparison techniques, including pairwise, profile, and iterative profile methods
- Development of optimized target selection strategies
- Recognition of ancient, conserved protein functionality between prokaryotic, archae, and eukaryotic genomes
- Development of the Chimera Collaboratory
- I have a BA in Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology from the
University of California, Santa
Cruz
- Here's my undergraduate thesis,
Prediction of Gene-encoding Regions in E.Coli DNA
Dave has some non-scientific interests as well...
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