Andy Brass

Andrew M. Brass is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Manchester in the Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Life Sciences.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Andy Brass
Born	Andrew M. Brass United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics
Institutions	University of Edinburgh McMaster University University of Manchester Stannington Brass Band Department of Computer Science Faculty of Life Sciences
Thesis	Molecular dynamics simulations of fluorite structure crystals (1987)
Website	manchester.ac.uk/research/andy.brass

Education

Brass was educated at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his PhD on Solid-state physics in 1987.^[6]

Research

Following his PhD, Brass worked at McMaster University^[7][8] in Canada on a NATO fellowship to study aspects of high-temperature superconductivity and strongly coupled electron systems. In 1990 he moved to the University of Manchester^[9][10] to become a founding member of the bioinformatics group, where he has a wide range of projects in protein function prediction, gene expression analysis, intelligent integration,^[11] automated curation,^[12] and bioinformatics education.^[13]