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OMRF receives $26 million for two federal research grants

Jonathan D. Wren, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Arthritis and Immunology Research Program

Research Interests
My area of research is in Bioinformatics which, briefly defined, is the application of information-related sciences to problems in biology and medicine. My research largely focuses upon developing methods of obtaining, integrating and modeling biomedical data into an informational framework to enable computers to play a greater role in the automated discovery of new knowledge.

Studying biology is complex, not just because the number of variables (e.g., genes and metabolies) is large, but because the number of possible interactions is far larger. High-throughput technologies are helping to gather more measurements, but a constant challenge is to bridge the gap between our vast and growing cumulative knowledge and our own individual knowledge. Reductionism remains the foundation of science, but I believe methods of integrating and modeling our cumulative knowledge will be rate-limiting in terms of how fast we can make new discoveries.

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Arthritis and Immunology Research Program, MS 58
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
825 N.E. 13th Street
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104

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Phone: (405) 271-6989
Fax: (405) 271-4110