David Sankoff

David Sankoff
David Sankoff at "Models and Algorithms for Genome Evolution" in 2013, Bromont, Quebec.
Born (1942-12-31) December 31, 1942 (age 81)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Alma materMcGill University (BSc, MSc, PhD)
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ThesisHistorical Linguistics as a Stochastic Process (1969)
Doctoral advisorDonald Andrew Dawson[5]
Websitealbuquerque.bioinformatics.uottawa.ca

David Sankoff (born December 31, 1942) is a Canadian mathematician, bioinformatician, computer scientist and linguist. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Genomics in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at the University of Ottawa, and is cross-appointed to the Biology Department and the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He was founding editor of the scientific journal Language Variation and Change (Cambridge)[6] and serves on the editorial boards of a number of bioinformatics, computational biology and linguistics journals.[7][8][9][10] Sankoff is best known for his pioneering contributions in computational linguistics and computational genomics.[3] He is considered to be one of the founders of bioinformatics. In particular, he had a key role in introducing dynamic programming[11] for sequence alignment and other problems in computational biology. In Pavel Pevzner's words,[2] "Michael Waterman and David Sankoff are responsible for transforming bioinformatics from a ‘stamp collection' of ill-defined problems into a rigorous discipline with important biological applications."

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  2. ^ a b Maisel, M. (2006). "ISCB Honors Michael S. Waterman and Mathieu Blanchette". PLOS Computational Biology. 2 (8): e105. Bibcode:2006PLSCB...2..105M. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020105. PMC 1526462.
  3. ^ a b David Sankoff publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ :Sankoff, David (2008). "How to Predict the Evolution of a Bilingual Community". In Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff (pp. 179–194). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  5. ^ David Sankoff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Sali, Tagliamonte (2015-11-02). Making waves : the story of variationist sociolinguistics. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781118455166. OCLC 921307274.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ "BMC Bioinformatics". Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology". Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Journal of Computational Biology". Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 43". Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  11. ^ Sankoff, D. (2000). "The early introduction of dynamic programming into computational biology". Bioinformatics. 16 (1): 41–47. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/16.1.41. PMID 10812476.