Eugene Myers

Eugene Myers is an American computer scientist and bioinformatician, who is best known for his development of the NCBI's BLAST tool for sequence analysis. His 1990 paper (with Stephen Altschul and others) describing BLAST has received over 23000 citations^[1] making it among the most highly cited papers ever. He is currently a group leader at the Janelia Farm research campus (JFRC) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute^[2]. Before joining the Janelia Farm, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Arizona, the Vice President of Informatics Research at Celera Genomics (where he developed bioinformatics techniques for sequencing the human,mouse and Drosophila genomes) and a member of the faculty at UC Berkeley. His current research interests at JFRC include computational reconstructions of neuroanatomical data, as well as algorithms for analysis of functional neuroscience data.

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Education

Gene Myers received a B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado.

Awards

• International Max Planck Research Prize
• Association for Computing Machinery's Paris Kanellakis Prize
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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