Scott Markel

Scott Markel, Ph.D., is the Principal Bioinformatics Architect in Accelrys' R&D group. In this role he is responsible for the design and implementation of Pipeline Pilot's bioinformatics functionality. He is a Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology. Scott is on the editorial boards of Briefings in Bioinformatics and PLoS Computational Biology. He was most recently a Research Fellow and Principal Software Architect at LION bioscience, where he was responsible for providing architectural direction in the development of software for the life sciences, including the use and development of standards. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group and co-chair of the Life Sciences Research Domain Task Force. Prior to working at LION, Scott worked at NetGenics, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, and Sarnoff Corporation. He has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a co-author, with Darryl León, of Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell: A Guide to Common Tools and Databases. Scott is a co-editor, also with Darryl, of In Silico Technology in Drug Target Identification and Validation and a co-author, with Ewan Birney and Jason Stajich, of the forthcoming Using BioPerl.