Aaron J. Mackey is a graduate student of William R. Pearson at the University of Virginia, where he studies
computational biology. His scientific interests include mechanisms for
the evolution of novel biological function, bioinformatics for
high-throughput proteomics, regulation of immunological networks, and
parallel computing. He is involved with the BioPerl and GMOD
software projects, and distributes his own simple biosequence relational
database tool package, seqdb,
for educational purposes. He also operates a small WWW programming firm,
WebDB-Consulting.
