Stephen Altschul

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birth_date =February 28, 1957
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field =Bioinformatics
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known_for =BLAST
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Stephen Frank Altschul (born February 28, 1957) is an American mathematician who has designed algorithms that are widely used in the field of bioinformatics. Most notably, Altschul is the co-author of the BLAST algorithm used for sequence analysis of proteins and nucleotides. He graduated "summa cum laude" [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D9133EF934A25757C0A962958260 Weddings; Caroline James, Stephen Altschul - New York Times ] ] from Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics and has a Ph.D. in the same field of research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Altschul/ ncbi]
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