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Jim Ostell's
Bio:
 Dr.
Ostell received a Masters degree in Zoology from the University
of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in Cellular and Developmental Biology
from Harvard University. He was the author of the popular sequence
analysis package, MacVector. At the founding of National Center
for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in 1988, Dr. Ostell became
the Chief of the Information Engineering Branch, and is responsible
for designing, developing, deploying and maintaining all the public
resources at NCBI. This includes PubMed, GenBank, BLAST, Entrez,
OMIM, PubMed Central, NCBI BookShelf, GEO, dbEST, dbSNP,
UniGene, LocusLink, RefSeq, and others. NCBI assembles the human
genome sequence used as the standard framework for human gene
models by every major site in the world and produces the set of
curated Human (and other organism) RefSeq mRNAs is the standard
reagent for finding and labeling characterized human genes. The
RefSeq manual and automated annotation pipelines also include
bacteria and viruses. The annotation of the Vancouver SARS coronavirus
to the level of mature peptides was provided to the Vancouver
group by NCBI in less than a day. PubMed is the largest biomedical
bibliographic resource in the world, incorporating publications
electronically from thousands of journals. NCBI is the most heavily
used biomedical information resource in the world, interactively
serving almost 400,000 unique users a day at rates of more than
700 web hits a second, and providing almost a terabyte of data
a day by ftp. NCBI must incorporate vast amounts of data in real
time ranging from sequences to genomes to structures to research
articles to books in hundreds of different styles and formats,
serve it to the public in other styles and formats, while attempting
to also offer some direction on how this might be done better.
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