Faculty Guide

Title

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise

Python, Perl, CGI Programming, Database Programming, Database Management

Profile

Ian Flockhart, MS, is a Bioinformatician at the Drosophila RNAi Center at Harvard Medical School. His work there includes analysis of high-throughput screening data and acting as architect, developer, and manager of the DRSC software applications, database and computer systems. He has been working as a software engineer in some capacity for more than 20 years, the last 10 in the field of bioinformatics.

Courses Taught

RBIF

100

Introduction to Bioinformatics Scripting and Programming

Scholarship

Flockhart I, Booker M, Hu Y, McElvany B, Gilly Q, Mathey-Prevot B, Mohr S.. "FlyRNAi.org—the Database of the Drosophila RNAi Screening Center: 2012 Update.." Nucleic Acids Research 40. 1 (2012): D715-D719.

Booker M, Samsonova AA, Kwon Y, Flockhart I, Mohr SE, Perrimon N.. "False negative rates in Drosophila cell-based RNAi screens: A case study.." BMC Genomics 12. 50 (2011): 1-11.

Hu Y, Flockhart I, Vinyagam A, Bergwitz C, Berger B, Perrimon N, Mohr S.. "An Integrative Approach to Ortholog Prediction for Disease-Focused and Other Functional Studies.." BMC Bioinformatics 12. 1 (2011): 357.

Ramadan N, Flockhart I, Booker M, Perrimon N, Mathey-Prevot B.. "Design and implementation of high-throughput RNAi screens in cultured Drosophila cells.." Nature Protocols 2. 9 (2007): 2245-64.

Flockhart I, Booker M, Kiger A, Boutros M, Armknecht S, Ramadan N, Richardson K, Xu A, Perrimon N, Mathey-Prevot B.. "FlyRNAi: the Drosophila RNAi screening center database.." Nucleic Acids Research 2006. 34 (2006): D489-D494..