My academic interests lie across a few areas, including metagenomic characterization, modeling biological systems, image processing, graphics, visualization, HPC, and generally any tricky problems that can be solved with a computer. Off hours, I enjoy gaming (video, board, card), FPGA design, retrocomputing, ancient history, and large amounts of Camellia sinensis. Feel free to stop by my office to chat about any of these topics and more!
Resources
I maintain PALADIN, the UNH SDB ParaView plugin, and a variety of other software in my Github repository: https://github.com/twestbrookunh
Discover all the services the UNH RCC provides: http://www.unh.edu/research/support-units/research-computing-center
Information on the Premise HPC cluster can be found here: http://premise.sr.unh.edu/
Contact Me
Office:
Email: anthony.westbrook@unh.edu
LinkedIn: Toni Westbrook
Twitter: @ToniWestbrook
Courses Taught
- MCBS 913: Applied Bioinformatics
Education
- B.S., Computer Science, University of New Hampshire
Research Interests
- Bioinformatics
- Computer Science
- Genomics
Selected Publications
Berry, C., Boyce, A. M., Kaban, L. B., Peacock, Z. S., Mannstadt, M., Upadhyay, J., & Craniofacial Fibrous Dysplasia Research Team. (2025). Identifying Pain Subtypes in Patients With Craniofacial Lesions of Fibrous Dysplasia/McCune-Albright Syndrome.. J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 83(3), 366-373. doi:10.1016/j.joms.2024.12.001
Shah, N., Drubach, L. A., Berry, C., Mannstadt, M., Peacock, Z. S., Upadhyay, J., & Craniofacial Fibrous Dysplasia Research Team. (2024). Dissecting the heterogeneity of craniofacial lesions in patients with fibrous dysplasia/McCune-Albright Syndrome.. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 53(12), 1006-1014. doi:10.1016/j.ijom.2024.08.001
Westbrook, A., Varki, E., & Thomas, W. K. (2021). RepeatFS: a file system providing reproducibility through provenance and automation. BIOINFORMATICS, 37(9), 1292-1296. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa950
Park, C. J., Macartney, K. J., Shen, J., Xie, K., Zhang, X., Bergeron, R. D., . . . ACM. (2018). A Novel Approach for Increasing Taxonomic Resolution in Protein-Based Alignments. In ACM-BCB'18: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS, COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, AND HEALTH INFORMATICS (pp. 538). doi:10.1145/3233547.3233646
Schuelke, T. A., Wu, G., Westbrook, A., Woeste, K., Plachetzki, D. C., Broders, K., & MacManes, M. D. (2017). Comparative Genomics of Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Beetle-Vectored Fungi in the Genus Geosmithia. GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 9(12), 3312-3327. doi:10.1093/gbe/evx242
Westbrook, A., Ramsdell, J., Schuelke, T., Normington, L., Bergeron, R. D., Thomas, W. K., & MacManes, M. D. (2017). PALADIN: protein alignment for functional profiling whole metagenome shotgun data. BIOINFORMATICS, 33(10), 1473-1478. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btx021
Aggarwal, T., Westbrook, A., Broders, K., Woeste, K., & MacManes, M. D. (2016). De novoGenome Assembly ofGeosmithia morbida, the Causal Agent of Thousand Cankers Disease. doi:10.1101/036285
