Dr. Baker joined the Baylor University faculty as an assistant professor in Bioinformatics in August of 2002. Prior to this academic appointment he served as a post-doctoral research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in the Genome Analysis and System Modeling Group. At Baylor Dr. Baker directs the Bachelor of Science in Informatics (Bioinformatics) degree program where he has the privilege to interact with many dedicated students. His research agenda includes translational functional genomics, distributed database systems, and data harmonization. This includes areas of biological information management systems, distributed databases, application of graph algorithms to biological processes and systems biology. He currently serves as the lead bioinformatics developer for the MATRR and GeneWeaver web systems.
