Vincent Ferretti

Principal Investigator and Senior Scientist, Associate Director, Bioinformatics Software Development

Research Description

Dr. Vincent Ferretti provides innovative data solutions for genomics researchers, extracting meaningful information out of the massive amounts of data they produce. As part of OICR's Informatics and Bio-computing Platform, led by Dr. Lincoln Stein, Dr. Ferretti develops innovative bioinformatic algorithms, unique software and databases, and provides integration and analysis of the information for genomics researchers.Dr. Ferretti also leads, in collaboration with the international consortium Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G), a bioinformatics program for open source biobanking, supporting the Ontario Chronic Disease Cohort and other relevant Canadian initiatives co-sponsored by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC).

Contact Information

Telephone
+1 (416) 673 8509
Email
vincent.ferretti@oicr.on.ca
Mailing Address
MaRS Centre, South Tower
101 College Street, Suite 800
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5G 0A3

Current

2008 - Principal Investigator and Senior Scientist, Associate Director, Bioinformatics Software Development, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR).
2007 - Honorary Research Fellow in the Genomic Epidemiology Research Group within, The School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester.
2005 - Adjunct Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University.

Background

2002 - 2208Chief Bioinformatician, Génome Québec.
1998 - 2002Director of Bioinformatics, Targanta Therapeutics Inc..
1994PhD in Mathematics, Université de Montréal.
1994 - 1997Postdoctoral fellow in computational biology, Mathematical Research Center of Université de Montréal.

Selected Bibliography

  • The International HapMap Consortium. A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs. Nature. 2007; 449: 851-861.
    • Zanke BW, Greenwood C MT, Rangre J, Kustra R, Tenesa A, Farrington SM, Prendergast J, Olschwang S, Chiang T, Crowdy E, Ferretti V, Laflamme P, Sundararajan S, Roumy S, Olivier J, Robidoux F, Sladek R, Montpetit A, Campbell P, Bezieau S, O’Shea AM, Zogopoulos G, Cotterchio M, Newcomb P, McLaughlin J, Younghusband B, Green R, Green J, Porteous MEM, Campbell H, Blanche H, Sahbatou M, Tubacher E, Bonaiti-Pellié C, Buecher B, Riboli E, Kury S, Chanock S, Potter J, Thomas G, Gallinger S, Hudson T, Dunlop MG. A Colorectal Cancer Susceptibility Locus on Chromosome 8q24 Identified by a Genome-Wide Association Scan. Nature Genetics. 2007; 39: 989 – 994.
      • Ferretti V, Christian P, Dominique B, Benoit C, François R, Blanchette. PReMod: A database of genome-wide mammalian cis-regulatory module predictions. Nucleic Acid Research. 2007; 35: D122-D126.
        • Blanchette M, Bataille AR, Chen X, Poitras C, Laganière J, Lefèbvre C, Deblois G, Giguère V, Ferretti V, Bergeron D, Coulombe B, and Robert F. Genome-wide Computational Prediction of Transcriptional Regulatory Modules Reveals New Insights into Human Gene Expression. Genome Research. 2006; 16: 656-668.
          • Liu J, Dehbi M, Moeck G, Arhin F, Bauda P, Bergeron D, Callejo M, Ferretti V, Ha N, Kwan T, McCarty J, Srikumar R, Williams D, Wu JJ, Gros P, Pelletier J and DuBow M . Antimicrobial drug discovery through bacteriophage genomics. Nature Biotechnology. 2004; 2 (2): 185 -191.