Reece Hart has joined UC Berkeley as the Chief Scientist of the Genome Commons to lead the collaboration and oversee the operations of the project.  Reece is a Celera-TCS Innovation Fellow

Reece received his M.S. in computer science with David States in 1994 and his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics with Jay Ponder in 1998, both from Washington University in St. Louis. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Biology Center at IBM’s Watson labs, where he worked on automated discovery of protein sequence motifs and their applications to function and structure prediction. In 2001, he joined Genentech as a scientist in the Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering departments where he applied structure prediction to target discovery. In 2006, he became the scientific manager of Research Computing & Informatics at Genentech. Reece designed and implemented Unison (reference), a large-scale open source project for protein annotation and mining that is similar in spirit and technical challenges to those of the Genome Commons.

We are excited and honored to have Reece working with us. The project was long on hiatus while we made this appointment and we look forward to swift progress. Watch for updates here.