Neil Saunders' profile
What I do
I’m currently employed as a research officer in computational biology in the Kobe Lab at the University of Queensland. By day, my main focus is computational analysis of protein-protein interactions, especially protein kinases and their substrates. Before this, I spent 6 years working on microbial genome projects; my research passion is enabling biological discovery using genome-scale analysis and the computational tools required to do it.
I find an increasing proportion of my time is spent discussing ways in which web technology can facilitate communication and data sharing between researchers. A lot of this happens at my blog and at Nodalpoint, which I have co-run with Greg Tyrelle since about 2001. You can also find me at all the usual social networks.
Affiliations
Current affiliations
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- Position
- Research officer
- Company
- University of Queensland
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Past affiliations
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- Position
- Research Fellow
- Company
- University of New South Wales
- Duration
- 2000 - 2006
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- Position
- Marie Curie Fellow
- Company
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Duration
- 1998 - 2000
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Location
- City:
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Hub:
- Brisbane
Interests
Bioinformatics and computational biology, microbial genomics, data mining, high performance computing, web technology for collaboration in life sciences.
Projects
Currently working on computational methods to predict protein-protein interaction, especially for protein kinases and their substrates. Also involved with the UQ Structural Genomics consortium.
Publications
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FGFR2 phosphorylation on Serine 779 couples to 14-3-3 and regulates cell survival and proliferation. Molecular and cellular biology (2008) (Epub 10 Mar 2008) PubMed ID:(18332103)
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Predikin and PredikinDB: a computational framework for the prediction of protein kinase peptide specificity and an associated database of phosphorylation sites. BMC bioinformatics (1) , 245 (2008) (Epub 26 May 2008) PubMed ID:(18501020)
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The Predikin webserver: improved prediction of protein kinase peptide specificity using structural information. Nucleic acids research (2008) (Epub 13 May 2008) PubMed ID:(18477637)
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Frith M, Saunders N, Kobe B, Bailey T. Discovering sequence motifs with arbitrary insertions and deletions. PLoS computational biology (4) , e1000071 (2008) (Epub 25 Apr 2008) PubMed ID:(18437229)
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Thakur A, Robin G, Guncar G, Saunders N, Newman J, Martin J, Kobe B. Improved success of sparse matrix protein crystallization screening with heterogeneous nucleating agents. PLoS ONE (10) , e1091 (2007) (Epub 31 Oct 2007) PubMed ID:(17971854)