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David J. Ross (Fed)

Physicist

David Ross is the lead scientist for the Living Measurement Systems Foundry in the Cellular Engineering Group at NIST. He currently works on methods for predictive engineering of biological function. His most recent work has focused on developing measurements and standards for large-scale, AI-ready biological data and machine-learning approaches to predict protein function using large-scale data.

Postdoctoral Research Opportunities

National Research Council Research Associateship Program at NIST:

Positions for non-US citizens:

  • Please contact Dr. Ross directly

Selected Publications (Google Scholar)

Publications

GROQ-seq Datasets Across Transcription Factors (LacI, RamR, VanR), T7 RNA Polymerase and TEV Protease

Author(s)
Aviv Spinner, Shwetha Sreenivasan, James McLellan, Svetlana Ikonomova, Dana Cortade, Simon d'Oelsnitz, Kristen Sheldon, Olga Vasilyeva, Nina Alperovich, Anjali Chadha, Lily Nematollahi, Andi Dhroso, Zach Sisson, Corey Hudson, Erika DeBenedictis, Peter Kelly, Amanda Reider Apel, David Ross, Catherine Baranowski
Predicting any protein's function from its sequence alone would be a significant breakthrough in molecular biology. Although machine learning approaches have...

Patents (2018-Present)

Created October 2, 2019, Updated December 10, 2025
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