Eugene Myers
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Myers speaking at ISMB 2014
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| Born | Eugene Wimberly Myers December 31, 1953 Boise, Idaho, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
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Computer science Bioinformatics |
| Institutions |
MPI-CBG Janelia Farm Research Campus University of Arizona |
| Alma mater |
University of Colorado at Boulder Caltech |
| Thesis | A Depth-First search characterization of K-connectivity and its application to connectivity testing (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrzej Ehrenfeucht |
| Doctoral students | John Kececioglu |
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Website www |
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Eugene Wimberly "Gene" Myers, Jr. (born December 31, 1953) is an American computer scientist and bioinformatician, who is best known for contributing to the early development of the NCBI's BLAST tool for sequence analysis.
Myers received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the University of Colorado.
His 1990 paper (with Stephen Altschul and others) describing BLAST has received over 62,000+ citations making it amongst the most highly cited papers ever. Along with Udi Manber, Myers invented the suffix array data structure.
Myers was a member of the faculty of the University of Arizona, the Vice President of Informatics Research at Celera Genomics, and a member of the faculty at UC Berkeley. At Celera Genomics, Myers was involved in the sequencing of the human genome, as well as the genomes of Drosophila and mouse. In particular, Myers advocated the use of the whole genome shotgun sequencing technique. Later, he became group leader at the Janelia Farm Research Campus (JFRC) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2012, Myers moved to Dresden to become one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. He will lead a new center for systems biology.
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