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Travis Doom

Education

B.S., Computer Science; B.S., Mathematics
Bowling Green State University (1992)

M.S., Computer Science

Michigan State University (1994)

Ph.D., Computer Science

Michigan State University (1998)

Dr. Doom is a co-director of Wright State University's bioinformatics research group and actively pursues research in the fields of bioinformatics, digital/computer systems, design automation, and computational mathematics/theory. Dr. Doom is recognized in the college as an excellent educator and a multiple recipient of the WSU College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching award, an invitee to the Ohio Teacher's Excellence Program (OTEP), and a sponsored attendee of the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI). He is an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the ACM special interest group on computer science education (SIGCSE), and has addressed issues on the incorporation of genomics education into the computer science curriculum at various conferences. Dr. Doom has served as the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Bioinformatics and is a founder of Forensic Bioinformatics Services - a commercial business founded on technology developed at Wright State University.

Selected Publications

D. Raiford, D. Krane, T. Doom, and M. Raymer, Automated isolation of translational efficiency biases that resists the confounding effect of GC(AT)-content, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (TCBB), June 2008.

J. Gilder, T. Doom, K. Inman, and D. Krane. Run-specific limits of detection and quantitation for STR-based DNA testing, Journal of Forensic Sciences, January 2007.

E. Heizer, D. Raiford, M. Raymer, T. Doom, R. Miller, and D. Krane, Amino acid cost and codon usage biases in six prokaryotic genomes: A whole genome analysis, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 23, no. 9, 1670-1680, 2006.

D. Paoletti, T. Doom, M. Raymer, and D. Krane, Assesing the implications for close relatives in the event of similar but non-matching DNA profiles, Jurimetrics, vol. 46, no. 2, 161-175, 2006.

Active Research Projects

An undergraduate program in bioinformatics

Automation of forensic DNA evidence analysis

Design recovery for digital systems

Research Interests


Bioinformatics, digital design automation, computer architecture and operating systems, optimization theory, and engineering education

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