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Chris P. Ponting is a British computational biologist, specializing in the evolution and function of genes and genomes. He is currently Professor of Genomics at the University of Oxford and group leader in the MRC Functional Genomics Unit, and is affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Gene Function, and Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. After receiving his B.A. and M.Sc. in physics from Oxford and the University of British Columbia, respectively, he returned to Oxford, completing his doctorate in biophysics in 1991.

Prof. Ponting contributed to the Human Genome Project, and did much of the sequence comparison for the mouse, rat, chicken, dog, opossum, and platypus Genome Projects. He has also used comparative genomics to contribute directly to the understanding of chromatin structure and the genetics of numerous conditions including asthma, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, retinitis pigmentosa, muscular dystrophies, and Aicardi-Goutières syndrome.

References

1. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mrcfgu/ponting/cpp.html
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External links

• Chris Ponting's homepage in the MRC Functional Genomics Unit
• Darwin 2009
• Discussing the platypus genome

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