Dr. Goodman develops databases and software for applications
in biomedical research. He is developing disease-focused community
databases to support research on Huntington’s Disease and Type 1 Diabetes
funded by the Hereditary Disease Foundation and the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation, and is also developing supercomputer software for genome
analysis. Previously, he was a founding
member and head of bioinformatics at the Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for
Genome Research, ran a bioinformatics research group at the Jackson Laboratory,
headed a technical marketing group at Compaq Computers, and worked as a
bioinformatics consultant. Dr. Goodman
also has more than twenty-five years experience in the computer field where he
was a professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and Boston
University, and a founder of Kendall Square Research Corporation, a startup
company that developed multiprocessor supercomputers.