sarkar[^2]amnh.org
www.GenomeCurator.org
Research
A significant goal of my current research includes the identification of conserved features contained within encoded genetic information across genomes spanning the tree of life. Towards this goal, I design and implement a range of curation and knowledge discovery tools that are designed within a phylogenetic framework (e.g., Maximum Parsimony).
Another area of active research that I am involved with is the development of ontologies for the biological domain. Specifically, I am concerned with the creation of general biological ontologies that can be used in the design and development of consolidated data warehouses.
Finally, I am actively involved with the design and deployment of databases for storing genotypic and phenotypic information about organisms that can be used by phylogenetic tools. An end goal of these databases is to enable the inference of novel genotypic-phenotypic correlations (e.g., identifying the genotypic underpinnings of microbial organisms that are associated with the phenotypic manifestation of infectious diseases).
These research focii are done with a range of collaborators from Columbia University, New York University, National Library of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the New York Botanical Gardens, and the American Museum of Natural History.