Adam Siepel | |
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Born | Adam C. Siepel June 24, 1972 United States |
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Known for | evolutionarily conserved sequences |
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Thesis | Comparative mammalian genomics: Models of evolution and detection of functional elements (2005) |
Doctoral advisor | David Haussler |
Website | siepellab |
Adam C. Siepel (born 1972) is an American computational biologist known for his research in comparative genomics and population genetics, particularly the development of statistical methods and software tools for identifying evolutionarily conserved sequences.[1][2][3][4] Siepel is currently Chair of the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology and Professor in the Watson School for Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.[5]