Adjunct Professor
Department of Computer & Information Sciences
University of Delaware (UD)
Contact
Office: 147 Ammon Pinizzotto Biopharmaceutical Innovation Center
Mailing address:
Delaware Biotechnology Institute
590 Avenue 1743, Suite 147
Newark, DE 19713
Phone: (302) 831-6922
FAX: (302) 831-4841
E-Mail: jsgarave@udel.edu
Web Sites: Protein Information Resource, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Education
B.S.: Duke University, Durham, NC
Ph.D.: Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
Previous Positions
Biological Sciences Assistant, US Army (1971β1972); Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Biochemistry Division, Washington, DC, USA
Postdoctoral Fellowship (1975 β 1976); Dr. Bolling Sullivan, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC, USA
Postdoctoral Fellowship and Lecturer (1976β1980); University of Delaware Honors Program and Dr. Hal White, Chemistry Department, Newark, DE, USA
Lecturer and Research Associate (1980β1983); Texas A&M University, Departments of Chemistry and Plant Sciences, College Station, TX, USA
National Research Council Senior Research Fellow (1983β1985); NASA Ames Research Center, Extraterrestrial Research Division, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Research Associate and Director of Computer Operations (1986); The Agouron Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Senior Research Specialist and System Manager (1986β1988); Biomolecular Analysis Facility, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60680, USA
Senior Research Scientist, PIR Database Coordinator (1989β1997); Protein Information Resource Associate Director (1997β2001); National Biomedical Research Foundation, Washington, DC 20007, USA
RESID Database, Principal Scientist/Curator (2003β2012); TrEMBL, SWISS-PROT, Senior Scientific Database Curator (2003β2012); UniProt Grant Consultant (2002); EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Awards
1964 β 1965 | Tennessee Academy of Science Research Grant |
1965 β 1968 | Proctor & Gamble Academic Scholarship |
1968 β 1969 | NSF Undergraduate Research Training Grant |
1969 β 1970 | NIH Predoctoral Trainee Grant |
1972 β 1975 | NIH Predoctoral Trainee Grant |
1982 β 1983 | NASA Research Associate Award Grant |
1982 & 1983 | NASA – ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship |
1983 β 1985 | NRC Senior Research Fellowship |
1989 & 1990 | NSF Instrumentation grants |
1998 β 2000 | NSF Database Activities in the Biological Sciences Grant |
Service
Since 1966 | American Chemical Society |
Since 1976 | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
1971β1972, 1990β2002, Since 2012 |
Philosophical Society of Washington |
Since 1986 | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |
Since 1992 | Protein Society |
Since 2007 | Chair, Protein Standards Initiative Protein (PSI) Modifications Workgroup |
Since 2011 | Royal Society of Chemistry |
2010-2014 | Associate Editor, Proteomics Section, BMC Bioinformatics |
Since 2014 | Editor, Proteomics Section, BMC Bioinformatics |
Teaching
1979β1980 | Lecturer, University of Delaware, Freshman Honors Chemistry |
1982β1983 | Lecturer, Texas A&M University, Organic Chemistry |
Since 2012 | Professor, University of Delaware, BINF667011: Protein Modifications |
Research interest
More than forty years experience in research and administration in the biochemical sciences, bioinformatic databases and ontologies, molecular modeling, molecular evolution, and information theory as applied in protein science and proteomics, protein encoding, structure, function, modification and evolution.
Database Publications
- Protein Information Resource Protein Sequence Database (PIR-International), sections PIR1, PIR2, PIR3, Scientist Annotator, quarterly releases 24 through 66, 1989β2000
- Protein Information Resource Protein Sequence Database (PIR-International), section PIR4, Senior Scientist, quarterly releases 47 through 66, 1995β2000
- Protein Information Resource NRL_3D Sequence-Structure Database, Senior Scientist, releases 13 through 27, 1993β2000
- Protein Information Resource RESID Post-Translational Modification Database, Senior Scientist, quarterly releases 1 through 24, 1995β2000
- RESID Database of Protein Modifications, Principal Scientist/Curator, quarterly releases 25 through 70, since 2001
- Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL Protein Sequence Databases, Consultant, Senior Scientific Database Curator, releases 40 through 42, 2001β2004
- UniProt Knowledgebase, Senior Scientific Database Curator, releases 1 through 10, since 2004
Scientific Publications
- “Structure, Function, and Evolution of Mitochondrial beta-Hydroxyacyl-CoA and Malate Dehydrogenases.” R.A. Bradshaw, B.E. Noyes, B.E. Glatthaar and J.S. Garavelli (1973) 9th Int. Cong. Biochem. Abstr., p. 56.
- “Structural and Functional Similarities Between Mitochondrial Malate Dehydrogenase and L-3-Hydroxyacyl CoA Dehydrogenase.” B.E. Noyes, B.E. Glatthaar, J.S. Garavelli and R.A. Bradshaw (1974) Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 71, 1334β1338 [PMID:4133851].
- “Sequence Studies on Pig Heart Mitochondrial Malate Dehydrogenase.” M.R. Sutton, B.E. Glatthaar, J.S. Garavelli, L.J. Banaszak and R.A. Bradshaw (1975) Fed. Proc. Abstr. 34, 630, abstract 2334.
- Part I. Studies on the Structure of Mitochondrial Malate Dehydrogenase Part II. Applications of Information Theory to Protein Structure, J.S. Garavelli (1975) Ph.D. Thesis, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO. Diss. Abstr. Int. B 36 (1976), 4437β4438.
- “PROB2.JSG” J. S. Garavelli (1976), copywritten FORTRAN program.
- “PROB3.JSG” J. S. Garavelli (1977), copywritten FORTRAN program.
- “Exact Calculation of the Frequency of Matches in Sequences with a Variable Number of Gaps.” J.S. Garavelli (1977) Second Chesapeake Bay β Delaware Bay Probability Statistics Symposium, Newark, DE.
- “Polya Counting Theorem Made Practical: An Algorithm for the Multiplication of General Polynomial Forms.” J.S. Garavelli (1979) Sixth Chesapeake Bay β Delaware Bay Probability Statistics Symposium, Baltimore, MD.
- “Identification of a Volatile Phytotoxin from Algae.” J.S. Garavelli, F. Fong and E.A. Funkhouser (1983) NASAβAIBS Space Biology Symposium, Arlington, VA.
- “Estimation of the Rate of Glycerol 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Evolution in Higher Vertebrates.” R.A. Ballas, J.S. Garavelli and H.B. White (1984) Evolution 38, 658β664.
- “Information Content of Peptide Conformations.” J.S. Garavelli (1984) UCSC Workshop on Protein Folding, Santa Cruz, CA.
- “Stereoselection of Amino Acids by Formation of Ortho Diesters.” J.S. Garavelli (1984) Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life, New London, NH.
- “Improvements in the Computer Enumeration of Permutation Isomers.” J.S. Garavelli and J.E. Leonard (1985) Computers & Chemistry 9, 133β147.
- “Airborne Trace Contaminants of Possible Interest in CELSS.” J.S. Garavelli (1985) CELSS’85. R.D. MacElroy, N.V. Martello, D.T. Smernoff, eds., Moffett Field, CA, NASA TM 88215, p. 253β262.
- “Comments on Papers Concerning Computer Enumeration of Permutation Isomers.” H. Dolhaine, J.S. Garavelli and J.E. Leonard (1986) Computers & Chemistry 10, 239β240.
- “Computer Model of a Polyribonucleotide Structure Which May Have Functioned as a Catalytic Adaptor for Peptide Bond Synthesis.” J.S. Garavelli and A.L. Weber (1986) 5th ISSOL Meeting and 8th Int. Conf. on the Origin of Life Abstr., 344β345, abstract 203A, Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 16 (3β4), 522 [DOI:10.1007/BF02422177].
- “A Proposal for a Standard Format for Molecular Description Files.” T.J. O’Donnell and J.S. Garavelli (1988) Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry, Plymouth, NH.
- “Requirements for a Standard Molecular Description File Format.” J.S. Garavelli (1988) Workshop on Standards for Exchange of Computerized Chemical Structures 196th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
- “Progress Toward a Standard Molecular Description File Format.” J.S. Garavelli (1988) Second Conference on Biotechnology Research Directions: Biomolecules Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL.
- “An Algorithm for the Multiplication of Symmetric Polynomials.” J.S. Garavelli (1988) ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 14, 337β344.
- “The Effort to Define a Standard Molecular Description File Format.” J.S. Garavelli (1989) Chapter 12, pp. 118β124, in Chemical Structure Information: Interfaces, Communication, and Standards, Wendy A. Warr, ed., American Chemical Society, Washington, DC.
- “Protein Identification Resource Collects Sequence Information, Develops Software Tools for Scientific Researchers.” J.S. Garavelli (1990) Chemical Design Automation News 5(5), 12 et seq.
- “Why a Standard Format?” J.S. Garavelli (1990) Chemical Design Automation News 5(8), 2 et seq.
- “The Amiga Molecular Modeling Machine” J.S. Garavelli (1990) Desktop Visualization Workshop, Molecular Graphics Society, Bethesda, MD.
- “Molecular Modeling on the Commodore Amiga.” J.S. Garavelli (1991) J. Mol. Graph. 9, 24β26 [PMID:2018753].
- “The PIR protein sequence database.” W.C. Barker, D.G. George, L.T. Hunt and J.S. Garavelli (1991) Nucleic Acids Research 19, 2231β2236 [PMID:2041808].
- “GBPARSE: a parser for GenBank flat-file format with the new feature table format.” R.L. Read, D. Davison, J.E. Chappelear and J.S. Garavelli (1992) Comput. Appl. Biosci. 8(4), 407β408 [PMID:1498697]
- “Building International Scientific Databases for the 21st Century.” J.S. Garavelli (1992) seminar presentation, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France.
- “Protein Database Developments.” J.S. Garavelli and E.E. Abola (1993) Chemical Design Automation News 8(1), 28, 30.
- “The NRL_3D Database: A Tool for Sequence Conformation Study.” J.S. Garavelli (1993) The Protein Society Symposium, San Diego, CA. Protein Sci. 2 (Suppl. 1), 126, abstract 407.
- “A Database of Protein Structure Modifications.” J. S. Garavelli (1993) The Protein Society Symposium, San Diego, CA. Protein Sci. 2 (Suppl. 1), 133, abstract 450.
- “The NRL_3D Database: Cross-linking Sequence and Structure Information.” J. S. Garavelli (1994) American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA.
- “Linking Genomic and Protein Sequence Databases.” J. S. Garavelli (1994) The Protein Society Symposium, San Diego, CA. Protein Sci. 3 (Suppl. 1), 139, abstract 501.
- “Chemical information in biomolecular databases.” J. S. Garavelli (1995) The Present and Future of Biomolecular Information Databases, symposium chair J. S. Garavelli American Chemical Society 209th National Meeting, Anaheim, CA.
- “The Protein Information Resource (PIR) and the PIR-International Protein Sequence Database.” D.G. George, R.J. Dodson, J.S. Garavelli, D.H. Haft, L.T. Hunt, C.R. Marzec, B.C. Orcutt, K.S. Sidman, G.Y. Srinivasarao, L.-S. Yeh, L.M. Arminski, R.S. Ledley, A. Tsugita and W.C. Barker (1997) Nucleic Acids Res. 25 (1), 24β28 [PMID:9016497].
- “The PIR-International Protein Sequence Database.” W.C. Barker, J.S. Garavelli, D.H. Haft, L.T. Hunt, C.R. Marzec, B.C. Orcutt, G.Y. Srinivasarao, L.S. Yeh, R.S. Ledley, H.W. Mewes, F. Pfeiffer, and A. Tsugita (1998) Nucleic Acids Res. 26 (1), 27β32. [PMID:9399794]
- “The PIR-International Protein Sequence Database.” W.C. Barker, J.S. Garavelli, P.B. McGarvey, C.R. Marzec, B.C. Orcutt, G.Y. Srinivasarao, L-S. Yeh, R.S. Ledley, H.W. Mewes, F. Pfeiffer and A. Tsugita (1999) Nucleic Acids Res. 27 (1), 39β43 [PMID:9847137].
- “The RESID Database of Protein Structure Modifications.” J.S. Garavelli (1999) Nucleic Acids Res. 27 (1), 198β199 [PMID:9847179].
- “Prediction Tools for Protein Homology Domain-Associated Post-Translational Modifications in the RESID Database.” J.S. Garavelli, D.J. Miller and G.Y. Srinivasarao (1999) The Protein Society Symposium, Boston, MA. Protein Sci. 8 (Suppl. 1), 75, abstract 107.
- “PIR: a new resource for bioinformatics.” P.B. McGarvey, H. Huang, W.C. Barker, B.C. Orcutt, J.S. Garavelli, G.Y. Srinivasarao, L.-S. Yeh, C. Xiao, and C.H. Wu (2000) Bioinformatics 16 (3), 290β291 [PMID:10869023].
- “The Protein Information Resource (PIR).” W.C. Barker, J.S. Garavelli, H. Huang, P.B. McGarvey, B.C. Orcutt, G.Y. Srinivasarao, C. Xiao, L.-S. Yeh, R.S. Ledley, J.F. Janda, F. Pfeiffer, H.-W. Mewes, A. Tsugita, and C. Wu (2000) Nucleic Acids Res. 28 (1), 41β44 [PMID:10592177].
- “The RESID Database of protein structure modifications: 2000 update.” J.S. Garavelli (2000) Nucleic Acids Res. 28 (1), 209β211 [PMID:10592227].
- “Hilbert’s Space: aspects of one century and prospects for the next.” J.S. Garavelli (2000) Philosophical Society of Washington Retiring President’s Lecture, Washington, DC [http://home.earthlink.net/~jsgaravelli/MYTALK.HTML].
- “Cofactor-binding homology domains of the hybrid cluster proteins and the carbon monoxide dehydrogenase nickel-containing chains.” J.S. Garavelli, H.Z. Huang and D.J. Miller (2000) The Protein Society Symposium, San Diego, CA. Protein Sci. 9 (Suppl. 1), 75, abstract 131-M.
- “The RESID Database of protein structure modifications and the NRL-3D Sequence-Structure Database.” J. S. Garavelli, Z. Hou, N. Pattabiraman, and R. M. Stephens (2001) Nucleic Acids Res. 29 (1), 199β201 [PMID:11125090].
- “Protein Information Resource: a community resource for expert annotation of protein data.” W.C. Barker, C. Wu, R.S. Ledley, J.S Garavelli, Z.L. Hou, H.Z. Huang, P.B. McGarvey, B.C. Orcutt, C.R. Vinayaka, C.L. Xiao, L.-S. Yeh, F. Pfeiffer, H.-W. Mewes, and A. Tsugita (2001) Nucleic Acids Res. 29 (1), 29β32 [PMID:11125041].
- “Studies on the Cofactor Structure and Sequence Homologies of Rhodospirillum rubrum Carbon-monoxide Dehydrogenase Nickel-Containing Chains.” J.-Y. Heo, C. R. Staples, J. S. Garavelli and P. W. Ludden (2001) Protein Sci. 10 (Suppl. 2), 119, abstract 237.
- “The RESID Database Integrated with an Analytical Platform for Identifying Post-Translational Modifications.” J.S. Garavelli, B.J. Cargile, Y. Li, J. Johnson, and N.L. Kelleher (2001) Protein Sci. 10 (Suppl. 2), 111, abstract 212.
- “The Proteome Challenge.” J. S. Garavelli (2002) Philosophical Society of Washington, 2140th Meeting, Washington, DC.
- “Hydroxylamine reductase activity of the hybrid cluster protein from Escherichia coli.” M.T. Wolfe, J. Heo, J.S. Garavelli, P.W. Ludden (2002) J. Bacteriol. 184 (21), 5898-5902 [PMID:12374823].
- “The RESID Database of Protein Modifications: 2003 developments.” J.S. Garavelli (2003) Nucleic Acids Res. 31, 499-501 [PMID:12520062].
- “A Bioinformatic Analysis of Protein Modifications in the RESID Database.” J.S. Garavelli (2003) Protein Sci. 12 (Suppl. 2), 73, abstract 64.
- “Design Considerations for Swiss-Prot Feature Annotations.” J.S. Garavelli, N. Farriol-Mathis and A. Bairoch (2003) Protein Sci. 12 (Suppl. 2), 126β127, abstract 230.
- “Automated Protein Database Annotations Based on Family Classification.” J.S. Garavelli, E. Kretschmann, J.F. OΒ΄Rourke, A. Hackmann, A. Rakow and R. Apweiler (2003) Protein Sci. 12 (Suppl. 2), 127, abstract 231.
- “The RESID Database of Protein Modifications as a resource and annotation tool.” J.S. Garavelli (2004) Proteomics 4 (4), 1527β1533 [PMID:15174122].
- “Annotation of post-translational modifications in the Swiss-Prot knowledge base.” N. Farriol-Mathis, J.S. Garavelli, B. Boeckmann, S. Duvaud, E. Gasteiger, A. Gateau, A.-L. Veuthey and A. Bairoch (2004) Proteomics 4 (4), 1537β1550 [PMID:15174124].
- “ProSight PTM: an integrated environment for protein identification and characterization by top-down mass spectrometry.” R.D. LeDuc, G.K. Taylor, Y.B. Kim, T.E. Januszyk, L.H. Bynum, J.V. Sola, J.S. Garavelli and N.L. Kelleher (2004) Nucleic Acids Res. 32 (), W340βW345 [PMID:15215407].
- “Autumn 2005 Workshop of the Human Proteome Organisation Proteomics Standards Initiative (HUPO-PSI) Geneva, September, 4-6, 2005.” S. Orchard, H. Hermjakob, C. Taylor, P.-A. Binz, C. Hoogland, R. Julian, J.S. Garavelli, R. Aebersold, and R. Apweiler (2006) Proteomics 6, 738β741 [PMID:16411267].
- “Proteomics and Beyond: a report on the 3rd Annual Spring Workshop of the HUPO-PSI 21-23 April 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA.” S. Orchard, R. Apweiler, R. Barkovich, D. Field, J.S. Garavelli, D. Horn, A. Jones, P. Jones, R. Julian, R. McNally, J. Nerothin, N. Paton, A. Pizarro, S. Seymour, C. Taylor, S. Wiemann, H. Hermjakob (2006) Proteomics 6 (16), 4439β4443 [PMID:16897683].
- “The work of the Human Proteome Organisation’s Proteomics Standards Initiative (HUPO PSI).” C.F. Taylor, H. Hermjakob, R.K. Julian Jr, J.S. Garavelli, R. Aebersold, and R. Apweiler (2006) Omics 10 (2), 145β151 [PMID:16901219].
- “A standard nomenclature for modifications encountered in the analysis of proteins by mass spectrometry.” S.L. Seymour, R.C. Beavis, P.-A. Binz, D.M. Horn, R.J. Chalkley, D. Suckau, L. Montecchi-Palazzi, J.S. Garavelli, J. Shofstahl, D.M. Creasy, and J.S. Cottrell (2006) 16th meeting of Methods in Protein Structural Analysis, Lille, France, August 29-September 2, abstract 83.
- “A standard nomenclature for modifications encountered in the analysis of proteins by mass spectrometry.” S.L. Seymour, R.C. Beavis, P.-A. Binz, D.M. Horn, R.J. Chalkley, D. Suckau, L. Montecchi-Palazzi, J.S. Garavelli, J. Shofstahl, D.M. Creasy, and J.S. Cottrell (2006) HUPO 2006, Long Beach (USA), Oct-Nov.
- “The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt).” The UniProt Consortium (2007) Nucleic Acids Res. 35 (Database issue), D193-1977 [PMID:17142230].
- “‘Good Annotation Practice’ for Chemical Data in Biology.” K. Degtyarenko, M. Ennis, and J.S. Garavelli (2007) In Silico Biology 7 (2 Suppl.), S45βS56 [PMID:17822390].
- “Interpreting sequences from mastodon and T. rex.” J.M. Asara, J.S. Garavelli, D.A. Slatter, M.H. Schweitzer, L.M. Freimark, M. Phillips, and L.C. Cantley (2007) Science 317 (5843), 1324β1325 [PMID:17823333].
- “The PSI-MOD community standard for representation of protein modification data.” L. Montecchi-Palazzi, R. Beavis, P.A. Binz, R.J. Chalkley, J. Cottrell, D. Creasy, J. Shofstahl, S.L. Seymour and J.S. Garavelli (2008) Nat. Biotechnol. 26 (8), 864β866 [PMID:18688235].
- “The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt).” UniProt Consortium (2008) Nucleic Acids Res. 36 (Database issue), D190βD195 [PMID:18045787].
- “Missing in Action: Enzyme Functional Annotations in Biological Databases.” N. Furnham, J.S. Garavelli, R. Apweiler, and J.M. Thornton (2009) Nat. Chem. Biol. 5 (8), 521β525 [PMID:19620987].
- “The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) 2009.” UniProt Consortium (2009) Nucleic Acids Res. 37 (Database issue), D169βD174 [PMID:18836194].
- “The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2010.” UniProt Consortium (2010) Nucleic Acids Res. 38 (Database issue), D142βD148 [PMID:19843607].
- “UniProt Knowledgebase: a hub of integrated protein data.” M. Magrane, UniProt Consortium (2011) Database (Oxford) 2011, bar009. [PMID:21447597].
- “Reorganizing the protein space at the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt).” UniProt Consortium (2012) Nucleic Acids Res. 40 (Database issue), D71βD75 [PMID:22102590].
- “Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature.” P.G. Arnison, M.J. Bibb, G. Bierbaum, A.A. Bowers, T.S. Bugni, G. Bulaj, J.A. Camarero, D.J. Campopiano, G.L. Challis, J. Clardy, P.D. Cotter, D.J. Craik, M. Dawson, E. Dittmann, S. Donadio, P.C. Dorrestein, K.D. Entian, M.A. Fischbach, J.S. Garavelli, U. GΓΆransson, C.W. Gruber, D.H. Haft, T.K. Hemscheidt, C. Hertweck, C. Hill, A.R. Horswill, M. Jaspars, W.L. Kelly, J.P. Klinman, O.P. Kuipers, A.J. Link, W. Liu, M.A. Marahiel, D.A. Mitchell, G.N. Moll, B.S. Moore, R. MΓΌller, S.K. Nair, I.F. Nes, G.E. Norris, B.M. Olivera, H. Onaka, M.L. Patchett, J. Piel, M.J. Reaney, S. Rebuffat, R.P. Ross, H.G. Sahl, E.W. Schmidt, M.E. Selsted, K. Severinov, B. Shen, K. Sivonen, L. Smith, T. Stein, R.D. SΓΌssmuth, J.R. Tagg, G.L. Tang, A.W. Truman, J.C. Vederas, C.T. Walsh, J.D. Walton, S.C. Wenzel, J.M. Willey, W.A. van der Donk. (2013) Nat. Prod. Rep. 30, 108-160 [PMID:23165928].
- “Update on activities at the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2013.” UniProt Consortium (2013) Nucleic Acids Res. 41 (Database issue), D43-47 [PMID:23161681].
- “Activities at the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt).” UniProt Consortium (2014) Nucleic Acids Res. 42 (Database issue), D191-198 [PMID:24253303].