Dr. Philip Andrews, Principal Investigator

A faculty member of the University of Michigan, Department of Biological Chemistry and Bioinformatics, and a tireless advocate of this project. Phil is the boss. ProteomeCommons, Tranche, PRIME, and several related projects are support by his research group.

James "Augie" Hill, Proteome Commons Lead Developer

Augie has been developing for the Tranche Project since February, 2007. He is a Southern Methodist University graduate of Computer Engineering, and will be entering graduate studies at the University of Michigan in September, 2010 working towards an MSE in Computer Science. With any spare time, he coaches figure skating and does side development projects. His portfolio is available at augiehill.com/portfolio.

Mark Gjukich, Web Content Administrator

Web Content Administrator and official power user. A graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Mark is responsible for continued development of the website and user testing. Mark provides valuable user insight to the this project. Mark also helps monitor and maintain the news feeds, tools links, and e-mail groups for both ProteomeCommons.org and Tranche. If you are interested in learning more about ProteomeCommons, Tranche or discussing possible collaborations, Mark is the one to get in touch with.

Bryan Smith, Application Developer

Bryan, a graduate of College of William & Mary in Psychology and Eastern Michigan University in Computer Science, has been developing with the team since February of 2007, and really loves to design and build things. He is currently working on an ambitious side project, HundredApps, with the hopeless goal of creating 100 tiny open source web applications. Bryan loves to read and write, and eventually intends to attend graduate school in Bioinformatics or Computer Science, and wishes to be a professor and writer. He posts links to all of his work — regardless of how shameful, dated and irrelevant it becomes — in his portfolio.

Dr. Jayson Falkner

Former lead developer for ProteomeCommons and the Tranche Project. Jayson was responsible for designing the Tranche Project and for implementing most of the design and original code during his PhD studies at the University of Michigan. Jayson has helped author several Java books and is an expert group member for one of the Java specifications. He is an open-source proponent and a Java-nut who recently finished his Bioinformatics PhD at the University of Michigan.

Jayson is co-founder of Single Organism Software Inc (SOSI). Jayson remains affiliated with the Tranche Project and makes contributions as time allows.

Panagiotis T Papoulias, Application Developer

My experience in developing and engineering software applications and algorithms dates back to more than a quarter of a century. The breadth of applications covers a wide range of industries and problems: economics, embedded real time programming, visual authoring tools with emphasis on automotive applications, tools for vehicle networks for multiplexing, PCI board testers, an end-of-line system for Ford, 3D-visualization software for condensed matter systems, information managements systems for density functional codes, visualization tools for Proteomics, signal processing algorithms, compression algorithms, a laboratory information system for Proteomics, data extraction and analysis tools for mass-spectrometers.

Two years I had been encouraged by my current boss and mentor, Dr Phil Andrews, to explore new proteomics technologies. This project has culminated in exploring exotic ionization sources with application to mass spectrometry. I presented details of this work and my hypothesis to the Wayne State Physics department. The department was gracious in providing two laboratories for a few months to build a mass spectrometer with the appropriate exotic ionization source and to conduct a series of experiments. I worked on building this instrument over long weekends and weeknights. I hope to be presenting my results in the next several months.

I am also enjoying working with students on some "experimental" software projects. Two key projects involve building a search engine for proteomics and a platform to allow scientists who are not proficient in coding to develop their own data processing pipelines.

For the past six years I have also been also earning a Ph.D in theoretical and computational physics of condensed matter systems. At the time of this writing my thesis has been submitted to my department and committee and I expect to defend in the next few weeks.