Professor Richard Baldock PhD
Consultant (GE Databases, Imaging and Computing)
Richard gained a PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Australia National University. Following that, he undertook postdoctoral research in Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford. From Oxford he left physics to work in image processing and knowledge-based systems with application to biomedical images. This developed into research on mouse development and with Duncan Davidson has established the Ediburgh Mouse Atlas Programme. This international programme has lead the development of spatio-temporal databases for biomedical research into mouse and human development.
A collaboration of the project with Newcsatle University has lead to the prototype Embryonic Atlas of the developing Human Brain and then to the DGEMap design study.
Richard's research interests include Spatio-Temporal frameworks and databases in biology, embryo development, modelling and analysing spatial data, imaging and image processing, bioinformatics and DB interoperability.
Richard is a programe leader in the MRC Human Genetics Unit and holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Edinburgh.
Selected Publications
- James Sharpe, Ulf Ahlgren, Paul Perry, Bill Hill, Allyson Ross, Jacob Hecksher-Serensen, Richard Baldock, Duncan Davidson, Optical Projection Tomography as a Tool for 3D Microscopy and Gene Expression Studies., Science. 296 (2002) pp541-545
- Bill Hill, Richard Baldock, Andrew Wallace, Image Warping through Geometric Model Decomposition, Proceedings of SPIE 4794
- Richard Baldock, Jonathan Bard, ALbert Burger, Nicolas Burton, Jeff Christiansen, Guangjie Feng, Bill Hill, Derek Houghton, Mathew Kaufman, Jianguo Rao, James Sharpe, Allyson Ross, Peter Stevenson, Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman, Andrew Waterhouse, Yiya Yang, Duncan Davidson, EMAP and EMAGE: A Framework for Understanding Spatially Organised Data, Neuroinformatics 1 (2003) pp309-325
- Albert Burger, Duncan Davidson and Richard Baldock, Formalization of Mouse Embryo Anatomy, Bioinformatics 20 (2004) pp259-267
- Albert Burger, Duncan Davidson, Yiya Yang and Richard Baldock, Integrating Multiple Partonomic Hierarchies in Anatomy Ontologies, BMC Bioinformatics 5 (2004) 184
- Richard Baldock and Albert Burger, Anatomical ontologies: names and places in biology, Genome Biology, 6 (2005) 108
- Guangjie Feng, Nick Burton, Bill Hill, Duncan Davidson, Janet Kerwin, Mark Scott, Susan Lindsay and Richard Baldock, JAtlasView: A Java Atlas-Viewer for Browsing Biomedical 3D Images and Atlases, BMC Bioinformatics 6:47 (2005)
- Subrot Sarma, Janet Kerwin, Luis Puelles, Mark Scott, Tom Strachan, Guangjie Feng, James Sharpe, Duncan davidson, Richard Baldock Susan Lindsay, 3D modelling, gene expression mapping and post-mapping image analysis in the developing human brain, Brain Research Bulletin 66(2005)449-453
- Jeffrey H. Christiansen, Yiya Yang, Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman, Lorna Richardson, Peter Stevenson, Nicholas Burton, Richard A. Baldock and Duncan R. Davidson. EMAGE: a spatial database of gene expression patterns during mouse embryo development. Nucl. Acids Res. 34 (2006): D637
For more references, see also this page.
Email : Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk