Biography:Jonathan Wren

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Jonathan Daniel Wren
Alma materUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Oklahoma
Known fordata mining, genetics
Scientific career
InstitutionsOklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Doctoral advisorHarold Garner

Jonathan D. Wren is a scientific investigator at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation[1] in the Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.[2]

Wren received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2003,[3] and immediately after began his independent research career at the University of Oklahoma.[4] He moved to OMRF in 2007. His bioinformatics research focuses on developing computational methods of inferring logical conclusions from extremely large bodies of unstructured or semi-structured measurements and/or facts.[5] He has been recognized for his work in text mining,[6] studies on URL decay (link rot) in scientific publications,[7] plagiarism detection[8] and for discovering the function of uncharacterized human genes.[9] Wren is an Associate Editor for the journal Bioinformatics.

References

  1. "Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) - Wren, Jonathan". OMRF. http://omrf.org/research-faculty/scientists-3/wren-jonathan/. Retrieved 2012-07-07. 
  2. "Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Adjunct Faculty". oumedicine.com. http://www.oumedicine.com/department-of-biochemistry-and-molecular-biology/faculty/adjunct-faculty. Retrieved 2012-07-09. 
  3. IRIDESCENT System: An Automated Data-Mining Method to Identify, Evaluate, and Analyze Sets of Relationships Within Textual Databases (Thesis). Repositories.tdl.org. 2003-02-01. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  4. "Office of Technology Development | University of Oklahoma". otd.ou.edu. http://otd.ou.edu/inventors/wren.html. Retrieved 2012-07-09. 
  5. PubMed (2012-05-24). "wren jd - articles in PubMed at NCBI". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=wren%20jd. Retrieved 2012-07-09. 
  6. "Researchers develop computer application to 'read' medical literature, find significant data relationships". UTSouthWestern.edu. 2004-01-22. http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/news-releases/year-2004/researchers-develop-computer-application-to-read-medical-literature-find-significant-data-relationships.html. Retrieved 2012-07-07. 
  7. Whitfield, John (2004). "Web links leave abstracts going nowhere". Nature 428 (6983): 592. doi:10.1038/428592a. PMID 15071567. Bibcode2004Natur.428..592W. 
  8. "OMRF scientist Wren helps develop anti-plagiarism tool". Secure.omrf.org. https://secure.omrf.org/omrf/news_releases/archives/features/2008/20080220a.asp. Retrieved 2012-07-07. 
  9. "Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) - OMRF's "cyber-sleuth" hunts new genes". OMRF. http://omrf.org/2011/08/11/omrfs-cybersleuth-hunts-genes/. Retrieved 2012-07-07.