Paul Gordon, PhD

BSc(H) in Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada
Master of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada
Photo of Paul in the woods

Areas of Research

Nanopore Sequencing Data Analysis, Phylogenetic Interference

Supervising degrees

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Masters: Unavailable
Math and Statistics - Masters: Unavailable

Working with this supervisor

Paul Gordon, PhD is the Bioinformatics Manager for the Cumming School of Medicine's Centre for Health Genomics and Informatics. Dr. Gordon has a background in Computer Science, but has been applying it to the field of molecular biology since 1996 with primer design and gene analysis of the first archaeal genome, Sulfolobus solfataricus P2, by Sanger sequencing. Since then he has worked on a number of Genome Canada projects ranging from biofuel enzyme discovery, to crop genetics, to kidney transplant monitoring. In these projects he has contributed to the parallelization of microarray analysis in R/Bioconductor, and co-authored more than 60 journal papers, including several using Next Generation Sequencing for both basic and clinical research from his current role.  

Dr. Gordon has co-supervised both Math & Stats and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Masters' students on the software topics of electrical signal-level analysis of nanopore sequencing data (OpenDBA), and parallelization of phylogeny inference (BEAST2).

Google Scholar Profile (Publications)

Contact this supervisor

Complete the following form if you are interested in working with this supervisor for your Graduate Program. All fields are required, unless indicated otherwise.

This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

UCalgary Notice of Collection
The University of Calgary (UCalgary) respects your privacy and is committed to ensuring the privacy of all students, staff, and community members. Your personal information is being collected under the authority of section 4(c) of the Protection of Privacy Act (POPA). It will be collected, used and disclosed for the purposes outlined in UCalgary’s Notice of Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information and managed in accordance with UCalgary’s Privacy Management Program. Your personal information may be input into automated systems to generate content or make decisions, recommendations, or predictions. If you have questions regarding this notice or UCalgary’s collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information, please contact accessandprivacy@ucalgary.ca.

Related supervisors

quan.long@ucalgary.ca

Co-supervisor

Qingrun Zhang

Co-supervisor

Mike Smith

Collaborator