Nomi Harris received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University in computer science and molecular biology, and her master's degree in computer science from the Medical AI group at MIT. Since then, she has held positions at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the NIH; UCSF; Axys Pharmaceuticals (formerly Arris; now owned by Celera); Omicia; and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (which is in Berkeley, not Livermore).
Nomi joined the Human Genome Informatics group at LBNL in 1995, where she developed Genotator, one of the first sequence annotation workbenches. She then became part of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project. From 2002-2006, she was the project manager for the Apollo genome annotation and curation tool. Currently, she is a member of the Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-Source Projects group, where she is the project manager for OBO-Edit, an ontology editing tool that was originally written by John Day-Richter for the Gene Ontology project.Nomi has served on the organizing committee for several bioinformatics and computational biology conferences, including the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) and the now-defunct Annual Conference on Computational Genomics.
She is married, with two children and two cats.
Last modified: 25 Jul 2008