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William M. Nelson

Computational Researcher, Genomics
BIO5 Institute


Phone: (520) 850-3549
Office: 337 Keating Building
Mail: Keating Building, 1657 E. Helen Street, Tucson, AZ 85721

Current Projects

SyMAP (Synteny Mapping and Analysis Program) -- Co-PI
See http://www.symapdb.org.
Funding: USDA CREES Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems #2008-35300-04439
(PI C. Soderlund)
PAVE (Program for Assembling and Viewing ESTs)
See http://www.agcol.arizona.edu/software/pave.
Funding: NSF 0820346 (PI D. Gang)
Cave Metagenomics
Environmental sampling and sequencing of Kartchner Caverns, in Arizona.
Funding: NSF 0604300 (PI R. Maier)
Rhizomics
See http://www.plantrhizome.org.
Funding: NSF 0820346 (PI D. Gang)

Recent Publications

Nelson, W. and Soderlund, C.
Integrating sequence with FPC fingerprint maps.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 37(5):e36 (Epub 2009 Jan 30)

Shoemaker, R.C., Grant, D., Olson, T., Warren, W.C., Wing, R., Yu, Y., Cregan, P., Joseph, B., Futrell-Griggs, M., Nelson, W., Davito, J., Walker, J., Wallis, J., Kremitski, C., Scheer, D., Clifton, S.W., Graves, T., Nguyen, H., Wu, X., Dvorak, J., Nelson, R., Cannon, S., Tomkins, J., Schmutz, J., Stacey, G., Jackson, S.
Microsatellite discovery from BAC end sequences and genetic mapping to anchor the soybean physical and genetic maps.
Genome 2008, 4:294

Nelson, W., Luo, M., Ma, J., Estep, M., Estill, J., He, R., Talag, J., Sisneros, N., Kudrna, D., Kim, H., Ammiraju, J.S.S., Collura, K., Bharti, A.K., Messing, J., Wing, R.A., SanMiguel, P., Bennetzen, J.L., Soderlund, C.
Methylation-sensitive linking libraries enhance gene-enriched sequencing of complex genomes and map DNA methylation domain.
BMC Genomics 2008, 9:621

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History

2003-PresentAGCoL, University of Arizona/Bio5, Tucson, AZ
1997-2000Microsoft, Inc., Seattle, WA
1996-7RealNetworks, Inc., Seattle, WA
1994-5Los Alamos National Laboratory
1994PhD, Physics, U.C. Santa Barbara
1989BS, Math, Yale University