Sean Murphy is a Software Engineer at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JVCI) where he develops enterprise software applications to support Bioinformatics research. Currently, he is a member of the CAMERA team. With an extensive software background, including database design, middleware architecture, asynchronous messaging systems, Grid computing interfaces, model-view controllers, and website design, he is experienced in developing software systems end to end. Before joining JCVI, he was with Celera Genomics and Intelligent Medical Imaging. Products he has developed include the Moore Microbial Genome website, the JCVI Blast Server, the JCVI resequencing primer designer, the Celera Gene Index pipeline, and machine-vision algorithms for automated pathology applications. Sean has B.S.E.E. and B.S. degrees in Eectrical Engineering and Biology, respectively, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University.