Michael Christopher Wendl

Michael Wendl
Nationality	American
Fields	Computational biology
Doctoral advisor	Ramesh K. Agarwal
Known for	Phred base calling Couette flow DNA sequencing theory

Michael Christopher Wendl is a mathematician and biomedical engineer who developed much of DNA sequencing theory and co-wrote Phred, a widely used DNA trace analyzer. His result for the multiple-group birthday proposition solves various "collision problems", including overlap quantification in DNA fragment mapping and some types of P2P searching. He obtained the general solution of the Couette problem, for which only various idealized results had existed previously. Wendl is of ethnic German heritage and is the son of the aerospace engineer Michael J. Wendl.