BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Provide the following information for the key personnel in the order listed for Form Page 2.

Follow the sample format for each person. DO NOT EXCEED FOUR PAGES.

 

NAME

Nathan Goodman

 

POSITION TITLE

Senior Research Scientist

 

 

EDUCATION/TRAINING  (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

(if applicable)

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BS

1968-1972

Mathematics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MS

1974-1976

Computer Science

Harvard University

PhD

1977-1980

Applied Mathematics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: The Biographical Sketch may not exceed four pages. Items A and B (together) may not exceed two of the four-page limit.  Follow the formats and instructions on the attached sample.

 

A.      Positions and Honors. List in chronological order previous positions, concluding with your present position. List any honors. Include present membership on any Federal Government public advisory committee.

Positions and Employment

Sep 72 - Jun 73.   School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scot­land.  Research Associ­ate. 

Jul 73 - Sep 74, Feb 72 - Aug 72, Sep 70 - Jan 72.   LOGO Project, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massa­chusetts Institute of Technology.  Research Associate, Student Research Assistant , Student Worker. 

Oct 74 - Jun 80.   Computer Corporation of America.  Computer Scientist (77-80), Assis­tant Manager of Research Division
(76-77), Systems Programmer (74-76).

Jul 80 - Jun 83.    Computer Corporation of America.  Computer scientist (part time con­sultant).

Jul 80 - Aug 83.   Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University.  Assistant Profes­sor of Computer Science. 

Sep 83 - May 84.  Department of Computer Science, Boston University.  Associate Pro­fessor of Computer Science.  (Granted tenure in May 1984.) 

Jun 84 - May 85.  Sequoia Systems, Inc.  Product Development Manager, Database Products.

Jun 85 - Mar 86.  Encore Computer Corporation.  Senior Consulting Engineer. 

Mar 86 - Feb 88.  Kendall Square Research Corporation.  Founder, Vice President, and Chief Computer Scientist. 

Mar 88 - Feb 90.  Codd and Date, Inc.  Senior Vice President. 

Feb 90 - Apr 94.   Nathan Goodman Database Consultants.  President and Founder. 

May 94- Dec 95.  Marble Associates, Inc.  President, and Chief Technology Officer. 

Jan 91 - Jun 96.   Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.  Senior Research Scientist, and Associate Director of Center for Genome Research.

Jul 96-Feb 99.      The Jackson Laboratory.  Senior Staff Scientist.  

Feb 99-Mar 00.    Compaq Computer Corporation.  Director, Bioinformatics Center. 

Mar 00 – Oct 00. Independent bioinformatics consultant. 

Oct 00 – Jul 01.   3rd Millennium, Inc.  Senior Vice President.

Aug 01 – present.Independent bioinformatics consultant.

Apr 02 – present. Institute for Systems Biology.  Senior Research Scientist, and University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Affiliate Professor of Bioinformatics.

Other Current Professional Activities

Monthly columnist for Genome Technology magazine.

Technology Panel, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC).

Genomics Review Committee, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Ad hoc Reviewer, Genome Study Section, National Institutes of Health

Informatics Advisory Board, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Foundation

Scientific Advisory Board, AnVil Informatics, Inc.

B.      Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order). Do not include publications submitted or in preparation.

MULTIBASE:  A System for Integrating Heterogeneous Databases, Proceedings 1981 National Computer Conference (May 81).  J.M. Smith et al.

Concurrency Control in Distributed Database Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 13, No. 2 (June 81).  P.A. Bernstein, N. Goodman.

Tree Queries:  A Simple Class of Relational Queries, ACM Transactions on Database Sys­tems, Vol. 7 No. 4 (December 82).  N. Goodman, O. Shmueli.

Syntactic Characterization of Tree Database Schemas, Journal of the ACM, Vol. 30, No. 4 (October 83).  N. Goodman, O. Shmueli.

Multiversion Concurrency Control -- Theory and Algorithms, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol 8., No. 4 (December 83).  P.A. Bernstein, N. Goodman.

NP-Complete Problems Simplified on Tree Schemas, Acta Informatica, Vol 20, pp. 171-178 (1983).  N. Goodman, O. Shmueli.

An Algorithm for Concurrency Control and Recovery in Replicated Distributed Databases, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 9., No. 4 (December 84).  P.A. Bernstein, N. Goodman.

A Mean Value Performance Model for Locking in Databases:  The No Waiting Case, Journal of the ACM, Vol. 32, No. 3. (July 85).  Y.C. Tay , R. Suri, N. Goodman.

Locking Performance in Centralized Databases, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 10, No. 4 (December 85).  Y.C. Tay, R. Suri, N. Goodman.

Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems, (Book) Addison-Wesley, 1987.  P.A. Bernstein, V. Hadzollacos

Concurrent Search Structure Algorithms, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1 (March 88).  N. Goodman, D. Shasha.

On the Translation of Relational Queries into Iterative Programs,  ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 89).  J.C. Freytag, N. Goodman.

A Model for Concurrency in Nested Transaction Systems, Journal of the ACM, Vol. 36, No. 2 (April 89).  C. Beeri, P.A. Bernstein, N. Goodman.

Genome Informatics, The New Biologist, Vol. 3, No. 11 (November 91).  N. Goodman.

Genome Maps IV, Science, 262:67-82 (October 1993).  N.G. Copeland et al.

A Genetic Map of the Mouse with 4,006 Simple Sequence Length Polymorphisms, Nature Genetics, 7:220-245 (June 1994).  W. F. Dietrich, J. C. Miller, R.G. Steen, M. Merchant, D. Damron, R. Nahf, A. Gross, D.C. Joyce, M. Wessel, R.D. Dredge, A. Marquis, L.D. Stein, N. Goodman, D.C. Page, E.S. Lander.

An Object Oriented DBMS War Story:  Developing a Genome Mapping Database in C++, in Modern Database Management:  Object-Oriented and Multidatabase Technologies, W. Kim, ed., 1994, ACM Press: New York, NY.  N. Goodman.

An STS-Based Map of the Human Genome, Science, 270:1945-1955 (December 1995).  T.J. Hudson et al.

A Comprehensive Genetic Map of the Mouse Genome, Nature, 380:149-152 (March 1996).  W.F. Dietrich et al.

Good Maps are Straight,  Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Biology: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB '96) , AAAI Press (June 1996).  E. Harley, A.J. Bonner,  N. Goodman.

Current Status of the Plasmodium falciparum Genome Project.  Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 79:1-12 (1996).  J.B. Dame et al.

Informatics - Genome and Genetics Databases.  Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp 750-756 (December 1997).  M. Ashburner, N. Goodman.

A Map of 75 Human Ribosomal Protein Genes. Genome Research (May 1998).  N. Kenmochi et al.

The LabFlow System for Workflow Management in Large Scale Biological Research Laboratories, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB '98). AAAI Press (June 1998).  N. Goodman, S. Rozen, L.D. Stein.

A Model System for Studying the Integration of Molecular Biology Databases. Bioinformatics Vol. 14, No. 7 (August 1998). J.B. Macauley, H. Wang, N. Goodman.

The LabBase System for Data Management in Large Scale Biological Research Laboratories, Bioinformatics Vol. 14, No. 7 (August 1998).  N. Goodman, S. Rozen, A.G. Smith, L.D. Stein.

Revealing Hidden Interval Graph Structure in STS-Content Data, Bioinformatics Vol. 15, No. 4 (April 1999). E. Harley, A.J. Bonner,  N. Goodman.

LabBase: Data And Workflow Management for Large Scale Biological Research,  in Bioinformatics Databases and Systems, S.I. Letovsky, ed., Kluwer Academic Press, 1999.  N. Goodman, S. Rozen, L.D. Stein.

Uniform Integration of Genome Mapping Data Using Intersection Graphs.  Bioinformatics Vol. 17, No. 6 (June 2001).  E. Harley, A.J. Bonner,  N. Goodman.

Biological Data Becomes Computer Literate: New Advances in Bioinformatics. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 13:68-71 (February 2002).  N. Goodman.