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Doug Baxter


Senior Research Scientist
P.O. Box 999, K8-83
Richland, WA 99354
USA
E-mail: Douglas.Baxter@pnl.gov
Phone: (509) 371-6529
Fax: (509) 371-6110
URL: http://emslbios.pnl.gov/id/baxter_dj

Organization

WR Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, MSCF Visualization & User Services

Current Activities and Projects

  • EMSL/MSCF Point of contact for Grand Challenge Proposals 3562 and 3573

  • Polygraph tandem mass spectrometry analysis

Research Interests

  • Parallel programming

  • Sparse linear algebra

  • Tandem mass spectrometry analysis

  • Molecular dynamics

  • Weather modeling

Past Experience

  • 19+ years in Parallel programming environments

  • Senior HPC Benchmark Engineer for Sun Microsystems

  • HPC Consultant for Scientific Computing Associates, Inc.

  • Mathematics Instructor

  • Senior Programmer for Scientific Computing Associates, Inc.

Education

  • B.A., Mathematics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

  • B.S., Biochemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

  • B.S., Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

  • M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Selected Publications

  • Cannon WR, KH Jarman, BM Webb-Robertson, DJ Baxter, CS Oehmen, KD Jarman, A Heredia-Langner, KJ Auberry, and GA Anderson. 2005. "A Comparison of Probability and Likelihood Models for Peptide Identification from Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data." Journal of Proteome Research 4(5):1687-1698.


  • Malard JM, A Heredia-Langner, WR Cannon, RW Mooney, and DJ Baxter. 2005. "Peptide Identification via Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization: Pareto-Based Genetic Algorithms." Concurrency and Computation. Practice & Experience 17(14):1687-1704.


  • Nieplocha J, DJ Baxter, V Tipparaju, C Rasmussen, and RW Numrich. 2005. "Symmetric Data Objects and Remote Memory Access Communication for Fortran 95-Applications." In Euro-Par 2005, Parallel Processing, 11th International Euro-Par Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, August 30 - September 2, 2005. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3648, ed. José C. Cunha, Pedro D. Medeiros, pp. 720-729. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.


  • Malard JM, A Heredia-Langner, DJ Baxter, KH Jarman, and WR Cannon. 2004. "Constrained De-Novo Peptide Identification via Multi-Objective Optimization." In Proceedings of the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, pp. 191-199. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, NJ.