Ola Spjuth

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Employment Researcher (50%)
Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences
Uppsala University
Box 591, SE 751 24 Uppsala, SWEDEN

Post Doc (50%)
Unit of Computational Medicine
Center for Molecular Medicine
Karolinska University Hospital
SE 171 76 Solna, SWEDEN
Affiliated positions Application Expert - Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics
Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX)

Scientific Coordinator
UPPMAX Next Generation Sequence Cluster & Storage (UPPNEX)

Coordinator
Complex Diseases Community at the Swedish e-Science Reasearch Center (SeRC)
Contact Mobile: +46 425 06 28
Email: ola.spjuth(at)farmbio.uu.se   alt.   ola.spjuth(at)ki.se
Education Uppsala University, Sweden
PhD Bioinformatics (2009)
M.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology (2003)
B.Sc. Computer Science (2003)

University of Maryland, USA
Computer Science & Business and Management (2001-2002)
Previous work 2004 - 2009: PhD Student at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala Univeristy.
2003-2004: LIMS consultant at Crossover Bioinformatics
2004: Implementation of a Laboratory Information Management Syetem (LIMS) for handling experiments and results from high throughput genotyping at the Department of Molecular Biotechnology, KTH. The system was accredited by Swedac in 2005.
2003: Development of a data warehouse at the Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics. Reference: Ameur et al. (2006) Bioinformatics
Research projects In silico chemical safety assessment
Development of algorithms, methods, and tools for chemical safety, with a particular interest in drug safety assessment. The project includes combining predictive models in an efficient manner to maximize usefulnes, reduce risks, and provide useful decision support.

Data and softare integration in the life sciences
This project aims at taking advantage of the huge amounts of available data in bio- and cheminformatics using e-Science technologies. The project includes distributed databases and -services, standardization and ontologies, as well as high-performace computing.

The Bioclipse workbench for life science
I am the originator and project leader of the awarded-winning Bioclipse project, which is a workbench and platform for life science. The extensible architecture makes it an ideal solution to integrate all types of resources in bio- and cheminformatics.

Software involvements - Bioclipse - a graphical workbench and platform for life science
- The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) - a Java framework for cheminformatics
- xws4j - XMPP Web Services for Java (xws4j) is an implementation of machine to machine communication over XMPP
- brunn - an information system for high-throughput drug screening of cell-based assays