David A. C. Beck
Director, Scientific Software Engineering Center
Director of Research, eScience Institute
Research Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
Adjunct Research Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Adjunct Research Associate Professor
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Wilder Family Term Professor
Chemical Engineering
Pronouns: he/him
- dacb@uw.edu | GitHub link
- (206) 221-0709
- BNS 235
- eScience Institute
Education
- Ph.D., University of Washington, Medicinal Chemistry, Biomolecular Structure & Design, 2006
- B.S., Drexel University, Computer Science, 2000
Previous appointments
- Director of Research for Life Sciences, eScience Institute, University of Washington, 2009-2017
- Postdoctoral Fellow – Bioengineering, University of Washington, 2007-2009
- Postdoctoral Fellow – Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, 2006-2007
Research Statement
Systems biology of microbial cultures and communities
- Pathway reconstruction and analysis of bacterial communities from *omics datasets with relevance to biogeochemical cycles, biofuels, and human health
- Development of techniques for analysis, comparison, and unification of transcriptomics and proteomics datasets
Biophysical chemistry software, methods and applications
- Author of in lucem Molecular Mechanics (ilmm, Beck, D.A.C., Alonso, D.O.V., & Daggett, V)
- Development of an XML schema for molecular mechanics parameter library: MMPL
- Methods and software development for in silico drug and protein design in high-performance computing (HPC) environments
- Dynameomics: mass annotation of protein dynamics and unfolding in water by high-throughput atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. All atom, explicit solvent native and thermal unfolding simulations for hundreds of target proteins whose folds represent about 80% of the known protein domains.
eScience
- Workflow design and engineering for data-intensive analytics in biology and chemistry
- Data mining, management and sharing strategies for large biological datasets