Dr R.J. White

Lecturer

Contact Details

Computer Science & Informatics,
Cardiff University,
Queen's Buildings,
5 The Parade, Roath,
Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK

Email:

Phone: +44 (0) 29 20876996
Fax: +44 (0) 29 20874598

Extension Number: 76996
Room Number: S/2.18c

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Research Interests

My research is in biodiversity informatics, which is allied to bioinformatics and focusses on the modelling and analysis of species diversity data, which has challenging features such as subjective nomenclature and classification and complex descriptive data. I work in two areas: (i) techniques for extracting numerical descriptions suitable for multivariate analysis from biological images, and (ii) the interoperability of biological information systems, in which earlier work designing and implementing species databases has led to current projects building federated global species information systems, addressing data quality issues, and making these resources available for use in Grid-based problem-solving environments.