Francis Ouellette

Associate Director, Informatics and Bio-computing and Principal Investigator, OICR

Platform Description

The technology required for cancer research has become increasingly more complex over the past several years. Accordingly, the development of innovative solutions to handle the large and complicated datasets these new technologies generate has become an essential part of the cancer research process. OICR’s Informatics and Bio-computing Platform, led by Dr. Lincoln Stein, integrates and interprets this data, developing visualization tools to turn raw data into meaningful information for biologists, clinicians and trainees. Francis Ouellette will contribute to this platform by integrating new data types with other publicly available molecular data. Ouellette is also the Scientific Coordinator of the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop series.

Contact Information

Telephone
416-673-8511

Mailing Address
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
MaRS Centre, South Tower
101 College Street, Suite 800
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5G 0A3

Email
francisoicr.on.ca

Administrative Assistant
Judy Ramai
judy.ramaioicr.on.ca
416-673-8555

Current

2008 -	Associate Editor, Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.
2007 -	Associate Director, Informatics and Bio-computing and Principal Investigator, OICR.
1998 -	Scientific Coordinator, Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops series.

Background

2004 - 2007	Director, UBC Bioinformatics Center (UBiC).
2004 - 2007	Associate Professor in Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia (UBC).
2004 – 2007	Associate Director, UBC/Simon Fraser University (SFU) Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Bioinformatics Training Program for Health Research.
2002 - 2007	Associate Professor, UBC’s Michael Smith Laboratories.
2002 - 2007	Associate Director, Genome BC Bioinformatics Platform.
1998 - 2007	Director, Bioinformatics core facility for the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT).
1993 - 1998	GenBank coordinator, National Centre for Biotechnology Information, National Institute for Health Research.

Selected Bibliography

Zhang KX and Ouellette BFF. Pandora, a PAthway and Network DiscOveRy Approach based on common biological evidence. Bioinformatics 2009 Dec 22; [e-pub ahead of print].
Zhang KX and Ouellette BFF. GAIA: a gram-based interaction analysis tool--an approach for identifying interacting domains in yeast. BMC Bioinformatics. 2009 Jan 30;10 Suppl 1:S60.
Brazas MD, Yamada JT and Ouellette BF. Evolution in bioinformatic resources: 2009 update on the Bioinformatics Links Directory. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jul 1;37:W3-5. Epub 2009 June 15.
Landsman D, Gentleman R, Kelso J and Ouellette BFF. DATABASE: A new forum for biological databases and curation. Database. 2009.
Butland SL, Devon RS, Huang Y, Mead CL, Meynert AM, Neal SJ, Lee SS, Wilkinson A, Yang GS, Yuen MMS, Hayden MR, Holt RA, Leavitt BR and Ouellette BFF. CAG-encoded polyglutamine length polymorphism in the human genome. BMC Genomics. 2007; 8:126.

Journal

Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Research Projects

	GAIA A gram-based interaction analysis tool – an approach for identifying interacting domains in yeast.
	genomePad A mobile UCSC Genome Browser for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
	Pandora A PAthway and Network DiscOveRy Approach based on common biological evidence.

Workshops

Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops

Public Lectures

Building a Bioinformatics Center: Lessons From the Past, Outlook to the Future
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Fifth International Conference of the Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Download: (71 MB) (5 MB)

Can Scientists Cure Cancer With Computers?
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
MaRS Auditorium, Toronto, Ontario
Download: (33 MB) (4 MB)

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