The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

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 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

  1. Zhang KX, 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.
  2. Landsman D, Gentleman R, Kelso J and Ouellette BFF. DATABASE: A new forum for biological databases and curation. Database. 2009.
  3. Brazas MD, Fox JA, Brown T, McMillan S, Ouellette BFF. Keeping pace with the data: 2008 update on the Bioinformatics Links Directory. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jul 1;36:W2-4.
  4. 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.
  5. Kemmer D, Huang Y, Shah S, Lim J, Brumm J, Yuen M, Ling J, Xu T, Wasserman W, Ouellette BFF. Ulysses – An application for the projection of molecular interactions across species. Genome Biology. 2005; 6(12):R106.

Journal

Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

 

Research Projects

GAIA

 

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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