Paul D Thomas, PhD

Trained in computational biology (specifically computational protein folding using statistical-mechanics based techniques with Dr. Ken Dill), Dr. Thomas turned to genomics as soon as the Human Genome Project began pilot work in 1995. The culmination of this early work was the publication of the paper describing the sequencing of the first human genome in 2001; Dr. Thomas led the work described in the 10-page section of the paper entitled “An overview of the predicted protein coding genes in the human genome.” Since that time, Dr. Thomas’s group has continued to innovate in the area of computational analysis of genomic data, with an emphasis on gene function and evolution. In addition to founding and continuing development on the PANTHER phylogenomics project, Dr. Thomas is a director of the Gene Ontology Consortium, one of the largest and best-known bioinformatics projects in the world.

• Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate: Highly Cited Researcher (Biology and Biochemistry), 2014
   – 2020

• Gene Ontology Consortium and Knowledgebase
  NIH · U24HG012212 · Jun 1, 2022 – Mar 31, 2027 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Reactome and the Gene Ontology: Digital pathway convergence for core data resources
  NIH · U24HG011851 · Sep 24, 2021 – Jun 30, 2026 · Role: Co-Principal Investigator
• EcoliHub2.0: A next-generation E. coli model organism resource (SRI Proposal ECU
  NIH · U24GM088849 · Aug 1, 2009 – Jul 31, 2015 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Development and Maintenance of PANTHER Software
  NIH · R01GM081084 · Apr 1, 2008 – Mar 31, 2012 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Gene Ontology Consortium
  NIH · U41HG002273 · Jan 19, 2001 – Feb 28, 2022 · Role: Principal Investigator

• Mi, Huaiyu
• Haiman, Christopher
• Farnham, Peggy
• Gazal, Steven
• Toga, Arthur
• Thompson, Paul