Publications
2012
Diarrhea etiology in a pediatric emergency department: a case control study.
Denno DM, Shaikh N, Stapp JR, Qin X, Hutter CM, Hoffman V, Mooney JC, Wood KM, Stevens HJ, Jones R, Tarr PI, Klein EJ.
Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Oct; 55(7):897-904
The journal Clinical Infectious Diseases has published a study on the etiology of diarrhea in children presenting to a pediatric emergency facility. Samples were tested for a number of bacterial and viral pathogens and compared to stools from healthy, age- and geographic-matched community controls.
Craic Computing was one of groups involved in the study and developed the data management tools that supported it.
2009
Tri-County Comprehensive Assessment of Risk Factors for Sporadic Reportable Bacterial Enteric
Infection in Children
D.M. Denno, W.E. Keene, C.M. Hutter, J.K. Koepsell, M. Patnode, D. Flodin-Hursh, L.K. Stewart, J.S. Duchin, L Rasmussen, R Jones, P.I. Tarr
Journal of Infectious Diseases (2009) 199:467-76
The Journal of Infectious Diseases has published a study on risk factors for bacterial enteric infection in children that was performed in Washington State. Most studies prior to this have dealt with specific outbreaks of bacterias such as Salmonella or E.coli, but these represent only 10% of all such infections. This study sought to identify risk factors for the much larger set of sporadic infections. An editorial in the same issue of the journal discusses the significance of this study.
Craic Computing was one of groups involved in the study and developed the data management tools that supported it.
2007
Sequence Screening
Robert Jones
In: Working Papers for Synthetic Genomics: Risks and Benefits for Science and Society, pp. 1-16. Garfinkel MS, Endy D, Epstein GL, Friedman RM, editors. 2007.
A major study on Synthetic Genomics: Risks and Benefits for Science and Society was conducted in 2005 through 2007 by policy experts from the J. Craig Venter Institute, MIT and the CSIS, funded by the Sloan Foundation. Dr. Robert Jones contributed to that study and prepared a Background Paper on the use of Sequence Screening as a way to detect misuse of this technology.
2005
Internet Forensics
Robert Jones
ISBN 0-596-10006-X O'Reilly Media (2006) 223 pages
This computer security book describes a wide range of techniques for tracking down the sites and servers behind phishing scams, spam and other forms of Internet fraud.
More information, excerpts and code examples can be found here
2003
Errors in Patent Application Sequence Listings
Robert Jones
Nature Biotechnology (2003) 21: 1239-1240
This paper describes the surprisingly high frequency at which patent filings are rejected due to simple errors in sequence listings. It describes the types of errors that occur and offers advice on avoiding them.