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Victor M. Markowitz is chief
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officer and associate director at DOE
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(JGI),Victor Markowitz at DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)
Retrieved 8 July 2011
and head of
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's Biological Data Management and Technology Center.Victor M. Markowitz - head of Berkeley Lab's Biological Data Management and Technology Center.
Retrieved on 8 July 2011.
He received his
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and
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degrees in
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from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Retrieved on 8 July 2011. Markowitz has authored articles and book chapters on various aspects of
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Victor M. Markowitz
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and served on review panels and program committees for
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and
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programs and conferences.


Biography

Markowitz served as chief information officer (CIO) and
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, data management systems, at ''Gene Logic Inc.'', from 2000 to 2003. He was vice president and then senior vice president, data management systems, from 1997 to 2000, at Gene Logic. Markowitz built Gene Logic's data management, software development, applied bioinformatics, and
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(IT) organization, starting with an initial group of five scientists located in
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, that has grown to a staff of over a hundred
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s,
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s, bioinformatics scientists, and IT specialists, located in Berkeley and
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,
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. He directed the development of Gene Logic's data management products, including its flagship Genesis data management platform for
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data. These products are used by over 25
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and
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companies worldwide and constitute Gene Logic's main source of revenues. The tools and methodology used for developing Genesis have been presented at conferences and professional meetings, and have been described in several papers. Prior to joining Gene Logic, Markowitz was at
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, where he led the development of the Object protocol modelI-Min A. Chen, Victor M. Markowitz and Data Management Research and Development Group, Information and Computing Sciences Division
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, Berkeley, California, USA (1995): "An overview of the Object Protocol Model (OPM) and the OPM data management tools" ''Information Systems'', Volume 20, Issue 5, July 1995, Pages 393-418,
(OPM) data management and integration tools that have been used for developing public and commercial
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databases. The OPM tools have been successfully used for developing several public
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databases, such as the
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at the
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in
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, and the German Genome Resource Center's Primary Database in
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, and for setting up prototype molecular biology multi-database systems. The OPM data management tools continue to be used by scientific database groups in United States and
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, have been presented at seminars, database conferences, and professional meetings, and have been described in several scientific papers. Prior to this Markowitz has conducted research connecting the
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with the Entity-relationship model.Victor M. Markowitz, Johann A. Makowsky (1990): "Identifying extended entity-relationship object structures in relational schemas" ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering'', Volume 16 Issue 8, pp. 777-790, Aug 1990, , . He is also the
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Yoav Raz's ERROL page on Google Sites.
Retrieved on 8 July 2011.
of both ERROL - An Entity-Relationship Role-Oriented query Language,Victor M. Markowitz,
Yoav Raz Joab (Hebrew Modern: ''Yōʼav'', Tiberian: ''Yōʼāḇ'') the son of Zeruiah, was the nephew of King David and the commander of his army, according to the Hebrew Bible. Name The name Joab is, like many other Hebrew names, theophoric - derive ...
(1983): "ERROL - An Entity Relationship Role Oriented Query Language", In ''Entity Relationship Approach to Software Engineering'' (ER 1983), October 5–9, Anaheim, California. Davis, G.C. et al. (eds.), pp. 329–345, North- Holland. DBLP
conf/er/MarkowitzR83a
/ref> and the related Reshaped relational algebra (RRA),Victor M. Markowitz, Yoav Raz (1984): "An entity-relationship algebra and its semantic description capabilities", ''Journal of Systems and Software'', Volume 4, Issues 2-3, pp. 147-162, Elsevier Science Inc., July 1984, . developed as his
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project.Victor M. Markowitz (1983):
ERROL: An Entity Relationship Role Oriented Query Language
', M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel (January 1983).
For this he won the 1984 ''Computer Science Award'' of ''ILA – The Israeli Information Technology Association'',''ILA – The Israeli Information Technology Association''
/ref> together with his M.Sc. adviser Dr.
Yoav Raz Joab (Hebrew Modern: ''Yōʼav'', Tiberian: ''Yōʼāḇ'') the son of Zeruiah, was the nephew of King David and the commander of his army, according to the Hebrew Bible. Name The name Joab is, like many other Hebrew names, theophoric - derive ...
and the ERROL-to-RRA
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developer Reuven Cohen.


See also

* Object protocol model (OPM) * ERROL - An Entity-Relationship Role-Oriented query Language * Reshaped relational algebra (RRA)


References

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