David Patterson

Current

• Sole Proprietor at Vistamont Consultancy (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Consultant at BioSeek Inc.
• Senior Fellow at Tripos, Inc.
• Senior Research Scientist at Washington University

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Education

• Washington University in St. Louis

Recommended

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Connections

272 connections

Industry

Biotechnology

Websites

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David Patterson’s Summary

Expertise and patents in computational chemistry, similarity metrics in chemistry (recently extended into -omics), and pattern recognition. Multidimensional data exploration and optimization is a central theme. Interactive data mining, algorithm development, cheminformatics and bioinformatics.

Computational life science includes social behavior of homo sapiens.

David Patterson’s Specialties:

QSAR, virtual libraries of chemicals, visualization of high dimensional systems, application of similarity to design drug discovery processes. Data mining, algorithms, recursive optimization processes. Establishing online identity.

David Patterson’s Experience

• Sole Proprietor

  Vistamont Consultancy (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Biotechnology industry)

  February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  Protein and gene expression mining, quantitative structure-activity modeling, workflow development in KNIME open source platform, chemical compound selection for drug discovery, associated software development in Python, Java, C and SPL.

• Consultant

  BioSeek Inc.

  (Privately Held; Biotechnology industry)

  2006 — 2008 (2 years )

• Senior Fellow

  Tripos, Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; TRPS; Biotechnology industry)

  1986 — 2006 (20 years )

  Produced CoMFA QSAR module in Sybyl, created algorithms for chemical diversity analysis patented new approaches for virtual compound libraries and for visualization of 1000-D chemical space. Tasked with discovering new corporate opportunities and with prototyping the collaborations and algorithms needed to pursue them.

• Senior Research Scientist

  Washington University

  (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Research industry)

  1974 — 1986 (12 years )

  Monte Carlo models of long range transport of air polutants, tied to historical data of emissions and visibility.

David Patterson’s Education

• Washington University in St. Louis

  1970 — 1980

Additional Information

David Patterson’s Websites:

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David Patterson’s Interests:

Hiking, reading, computers, politics, poker, grandchildren, math and science.

David Patterson’s Groups:

KNIME
American Chemical Society

•    LI-aires
•    DataShaping Advanced Analytics
•    Lifesciences Opportunities in US
•    Eclipse
•    Pharmaceutical Discussion Group
•    Healthcare Analytics and Informatics, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Informatics
•    Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
•    American Chemical Society
•    Computational Biology
•    BayBiopharma
•    Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network
•    Professionals in Pharmaceutical Industry and Biotech Industry
•    Washington University Alumni Association
•    Computational Chemists
•    Computational Scientists & Engineers
•    Open Source Data Mining
•    Cheminformatics
•    Data Mining, Statistics, and Data Visualization
•    Systems Biology
•    Drug Design Consultants
•    ZINC Database Fans
•    Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Actuary / Actuarial and Statistics Group
•    Shakespeare
•    Tripos Alumni
•    Molecular Diversity
•    ACS Computers in Chemistry (ACS COMP)

David Patterson’s Honors:

Invited talks at Gordon Conference, Keystone conference.

Three patents: molecular similarity, searching virtual chemical libraries, and 2-D interactive visualization of 1000-D data.

David Patterson’s Contact Settings

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