Advancements in Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery

Biography

Prof Graham Ball is Professor of Bioinformatics at Nottingham Trent University and CSO of CompanDX UK and CompanDX China Ltd. He is Associate Director the John Van Geest Cancer Research Centre and biostatistics lead on three clinical projects. He has been involved in the development and validation of bioinformatics algorithms using Artificial Neural Networks for the last 18 years. He has 115 journal papers and 5 patents in this area. After a PhD (UN funded) and a Post Doc modelling environmental interactions with ANNs at NTU, in 2000 he shifted the focus of his analysis to proteomic and genomic data searching for proteins and genes associated with cancer. His current research interests are directed at the classification and characterisation of biological systems including diagnostic and classification modelling of microbial pathogens, cancer clinical pathology, allergic responses and viral diseases through the use of ANNs and other machine learning techniques. He is involved in the molecular characterisation of Breast Cancer with Prof Ian Ellis’ team at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.

Research Interest

Machine Learning,Precision Medicine,Deep Learning,Bioinformatics,Systems Biology,Molecular Driver Identification,Drug target Identification Understanding molecular processes in drug re-purposing,Insilico prototyping of diagnostics Data mining of complex data sets.