Stephen Altschul | |
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| Born | Stephen Frank Altschul February 28, 1957 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (A.B., Mathematics) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., Mathematics) |
| Known for | BLAST |
| Spouse | Caroline Kershaw James (m. 1994) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics |
| Institutions | NCBI |
| Thesis | Aspects of Biological Sequence Comparison (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Kleitman[1] |
| Website | www |
Stephen Frank Altschul (born February 28, 1957) is an American mathematician who has designed algorithms that are used in the field of bioinformatics (the Karlin–Altschul algorithm[2] and its successors[3]). Altschul is the co-author of the BLAST algorithm used for sequence analysis of proteins and nucleotides.[4][5]
- ^ Stephen Altschul at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Altschul, S.; Gish, W.; Miller, W.; Myers, E.; Lipman, D. (1990). "Basic Local Alignment Search Tool". Journal of Molecular Biology. 215 (3): 403–410. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80360-2. PMID 2231712. S2CID 14441902.
- ^ Altschul, S.; Madden, T. L.; Schäffer, A. A.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, Z.; Miller, W.; Lipman, D. J. (1997). "Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: A new generation of protein database search programs". Nucleic Acids Research. 25 (17): 3389–3402. doi:10.1093/nar/25.17.3389. PMC 146917. PMID 9254694.
- ^ Stephen Altschul publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
- ^ Stephen F. Altschul at DBLP Bibliography Server
