PETER TONELLATO
Peter Tonellato joined the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) after completing a stint as CEO of POINTONE Systems, the personalized medicine software company he founded in 2001. Previously, Dr. Tonellato was Founding Director (1997-2004) of the Bioinformatics Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. At CBMI, Dr. Tonellato created the Laboratory for Personalized Medicine to focus on research, development, and commercial translation of clinical, physiological, and genetic knowledge to benefit health care. Dr. Tonellato has worked in the area of biomathematics, computational biology, and biomedical informatics since completing his degree in applied mathematics at the University of Arizona in 1985.
• Dr. Tonellato’s efforts were highlighted at a keynote lecture at the
2008 Oracle World
• It was also highlighted as an Amazon Use Case where the lab’s
approach demonstrated the value of this methodology and
technology to translational science and the clinical enterprise.
• In May 2011, Dr. Tonellato became a full member of the
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center as part of the Biostatistics and
Computational Biology breast cancer program.
Recent Publications:
1. Genome Information Integration Project And H-Invitational 2, Yamasaki C, Murakami K, Fujii Y, Sato Y, et al. The H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB), a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jan;36:D793-9.
PMID: 18089548
2. Kwitek AE, Jacob HJ, Baker JE, Dwinell MR, Forster HV, Greene AS, Kunert MP, Lombard JH, Mattson DL, Pritchard KA Jr, Roman RJ, Tonellato PJ, Cowley AW Jr. Physiol Genomics. 2006 Apr 13;25(2):303-13. BN phenome: detailed characterization of the cardiovascular, renal, and pulmonary systems of the sequenced rat.
PMID: 16478827
3. Indap AR, Marth GT, Struble CA, Tonellato P, Olivier M. Analysis of concordance of different haplotype block partitioning algorithms. BMC Bioinformatics. 2005 Dec 15;6:303.
PMID: 16356172