Phil H Williams, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Technical Director at the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center

Title: Machine Learning for Bioinformatics

Phil H Williams is the Bioinformatics Technical Director at the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center located at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). This is a core facility for the joint UALR, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) bioinformatics program.

Phil received his PhD from the joint UALR, UAMS bioinformatics program. He did a postdoc at the Australian National University in Canberra.

His research interest are in function prediction for long-noncoding RNA (lncRNA) as well as interaction between microRNAs and lncRNA. The relationship between epigenetics, retrotransposons and lncRNA are also of interest.

Phil has applied machine learning to several data types including genomic and mass spec.