Christopher Bouton Explained

Christopher Bouton
Birth Name:Christopher M.L. Bouton
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois
Known For:Building Big Data software company Entagen, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in October, 2013.
Occupation:Technologist, entrepreneur

Christopher Bouton is the founder and CEO of Entagen,[1] a software company in the Boston, Massachusetts area, which develops Big Data integration and analytics solutions. Entagen's technologies were named "Innovative Technology of the Year in Big Data" in 2012 by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council[2] and Entagen was named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in the Life Sciences in 2013.[3]

Entagen was acquired by Thomson Reuters in October, 2013 for an undisclosed amount.[4] [5]

Early life and education

Bouton's mother, Barbara Bouton, worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and his father, Marshall Bouton, is a political scientist who most recently ran the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.[6] [7] Bouton was born in 1973 in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved from Chicago to Brooklyn, New York, New Delhi, India, Washington, DC and then back to Brooklyn.

Bouton attended Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn) for high school. While at Saint Ann's he was awarded sixth place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search in 1992[8] [9] for research that he performed at the Jackson Laboratory. He then attended Amherst College for his undergraduate education and Johns Hopkins University for his Ph.D.

While at Johns Hopkins, Bouton worked in the laboratory of Jonathan Pevsner who appeared as a Leonardo da Vinci expert and researcher on the show Doing DaVinci. While in Pevsner's lab, Bouton developed and released the "Database Referencing of Array Genes ONline" (DRAGON) database and DRAGON View analytics systems in 2002,[10] which remains in wide use currently.[11] [12] [13] During his doctoral research, Bouton also demonstrated that Synaptotagmin I, an important member of the molecular machinery which governs neurotransmitter release at the synaptic terminal, is a molecular target of lead which may in part contribute to the effects of lead poisoning.[14] Bouton also published on the effects of lead on gene expression[15] [16] and the involvement of presenilins in Alzheimer's Disease.[17]

Career

Following graduation from Johns Hopkins University, Neuroscience Graduate Program,[18] Bouton worked at LION Bioscience Research, Inc. (a subsidiary of LION bioscience AG)) and Aveo Pharmaceuticals (formerly GenPath Pharmaceuticals).

Bouton was recruited in 2004 to the position of Head of Integrative Data Mining at the Pfizer Research Technology Center in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Pfizer, Bouton is credited with having developed the Pfizerpedia,[19] [20] an organizational knowledge base.

In 2008, Bouton founded Entagen. Entagen developed a range of technologies that combined Linked Data[21] and Big Data approaches including Extera and TripleMap.[22] Entagen also participated in the hack/reduce community in the Cambridge, MA area from 2011 - 2014.[23] Entagen's technologies were named "Innovative Technology of the Year in Big Data" in 2012 by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council[24] and Entagen was named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in the Life Sciences in 2013.[25]

Bouton has published a number of papers about Big Data and data integration approaches.[26]

Personal life

Bouton was born in Chicago and has lived in New York, New Delhi, and Washington, DC. He currently lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.[27]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Entagen . 2013-12-10 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131129204338/http://entagen.com/ . 2013-11-29 .
  2. Web site: 2012 Award Winners | Mass TLC Awards . 2014-04-16 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140514093436/http://masstlcawards.org/2013/uncategorized/hello-world-2/ . 2014-05-14 .
  3. Web site: Gartner Cool Vendors 2014 - Gartner Inc.. https://web.archive.org/web/20110515082324/http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/cool-vendors/. dead. May 15, 2011. 18 September 2014.
  4. Web site: BioInform - Informatics - GenomeWeb. November 2013. 18 September 2014.
  5. Web site: Thomson Reuters Cortellis Data Fusion - Thomson Reuters. 18 September 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141019130723/http://thomsonreuters.com/press-releases/022014/Cortellis-Data-Fusion. 19 October 2014.
  6. Web site: Sign In. 18 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140711180014/http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/Files/About_Us/Staff_Bios/Marshall_M._Bouton.aspx. 11 July 2014. dead.
  7. Web site: The Next Move for Chicago's Diplomat, Marshall Bouton - Chicago magazine - Felsenthal Files March 2013. Chicago magazine. 18 September 2014.
  8. News: Long Island Student Wins Westinghouse Contest - New York Times. The New York Times. 10 March 1992. 18 September 2014. Daniels. Lee A..
  9. Web site: STS 1992 Finalist Chris Bouton with Warren H. Hollinshead and Anthony Massaro of Westinghouse - Flickr - Photo Sharing!. Flickr. 20 September 2010. 18 September 2014.
  10. Web site: DRAGON Database. 18 September 2014.
  11. Bouton CM, Pevsner J . DRAGON: Database Referencing of Array Genes Online . Bioinformatics . 16 . 11 . 1038–9 . November 2000 . 11159315 . 10.1093/bioinformatics/16.11.1038. free .
  12. Bouton CM, Pevsner J . DRAGON View: information visualization for annotated microarray data . Bioinformatics . 18 . 2 . 323–4 . February 2002 . 11847082 . 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.2.323.
  13. Book: Bouton CM, Pevsner J . DRAGON and DRAGON view: information annotation and visualization tools for large-scale expression data . Current Protocols in Bioinformatics . Chapter 7 . Unit 7.4 . August 2003 . 18428707 . 10.1002/0471250953.bi0704s02. 978-0471250951 . 27166855 .
  14. Bouton CM, Frelin LP, Forde CE, Arnold Godwin H, Pevsner J . 19793239 . Synaptotagmin I is a molecular target for lead . Journal of Neurochemistry . 76 . 6 . 1724–35 . March 2001 . 11259490 . 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2001.00168.x.
  15. Bouton CM, Pevsner J . Effects of lead on gene expression . Neurotoxicology . 21 . 6 . 1045–55 . December 2000 . 11233751.
  16. Bouton CM, Hossain MA, Frelin LP, Laterra J, Pevsner J . 27688036 . Microarray analysis of differential gene expression in lead-exposed astrocytes . Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology . 176 . 1 . 34–53 . October 2001 . 11578147 . 10.1006/taap.2001.9274. free .
  17. Thinakaran G, Regard JB, Bouton CM . 6595619 . Stable association of presenilin derivatives and absence of presenilin interactions with APP . Neurobiology of Disease . 4 . 6 . 438–53 . April 1998 . 9666482 . 10.1006/nbdi.1998.0171. etal. free .
  18. Web site: Neuroscience. 18 September 2014.
  19. Web site: Chemical & Engineering News: Business - Seeing The Forest At Pfizer. 18 September 2014.
  20. Web site: Enterprise Collaboration 2.0: Time to Jump In and Swim?. 18 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20131011034517/http://www.emc.com/leadership/business-view/enterprise-collaboration-2-0.htm. 11 October 2013. dead.
  21. Web site: Christopher Bouton - Semanticweb.com. 18 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416183356/https://semanticweb.com/tag/christopher-bouton. 16 April 2014. dead.
  22. Web site: Cortellis Data Fusion - Thomson Reuters. 18 September 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140104182643/http://triplemap.com/. 4 January 2014.
  23. Web site: Hack/reduce names data analytics startup Entagen its newest member - Boston Business Journal. 11 December 2012. Boston Business Journal. 18 September 2014.
  24. Web site: 2012 Award Winners | Mass TLC Awards . 2014-04-16 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140514093436/http://masstlcawards.org/2013/uncategorized/hello-world-2/ . 2014-05-14 .
  25. Web site: Gartner Cool Vendors 2014 - Gartner Inc.. https://web.archive.org/web/20110515082324/http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/cool-vendors/. dead. May 15, 2011. 18 September 2014.
  26. Web site: Pharma Bio World . www.pharmabioworld.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140416182045/http://www.pharmabioworld.com/features_chris_bouton.html . 2014-04-16.
  27. Web site: Our Team. 18 September 2014.

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