David Ussery

David Wayne Ussery is an American bioinformatician, academic, and author. He is a professor in both the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology and the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and holds the Helen G. Adams/ARA Endowed Chair in BioMedical Informatics.

Ussery's research has focused on bioinformatic analysis of bacterial genomes and has published a textbook in the discipline of Comparative Genomics, titled ''Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics: Bioinformatics for Microbiologists''. His notable contributions include a course on Comparative Genomics, and publications in journals, including the ''Journal of Clinical Microbiology'', ''Nucleic Acids Research'', and ''Advances in Genome Biology''.

Ussery led the Comparative Genomics Group at Oak Ridge National Labs and the Comparative Microbial Genomics group at the Technical University of Denmark, as well as served on the Board of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC). Provided by Wikipedia