- Eugene Myers
Eugene Myers is an American computer scientist and bioinformatician, who is best known for his development of the NCBI's
BLAST tool for sequence analysis. His 1990 paper (withStephen Altschul and others) describing BLAST has received over 24000 citations [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=eugene+myers&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search] making it among the most highly cited papers ever. He is currently a group leader at theJanelia Farm research campus (JFRC) of theHoward Hughes Medical Institute [ [http://research.janelia.org/myers/ Gene Myers' Home Page ] ] . Before joining the Janelia Farm, he was a member of the faculty of theUniversity of Arizona , the Vice President of Informatics Research atCelera Genomics (where he developed bioinformatics techniques for sequencing the human,mouse andDrosophila genomes) and a member of the faculty atUC Berkeley . His current research interests at JFRC include computational reconstructions of neuroanatomical data, as well as algorithms for analysis of functional neuroscience data.Education
Gene Myers received a B.S. in mathematics from the
California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in computer science from the dn|University of Colorado.Awards
*International Max Planck Research Prize
*Association for Computing Machinery 's Paris Kanellakis Prize
*Member of theNational Academy of Engineering .References
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