Bioinformaticians

Barend Mons (born 1957, The Hague) is a molecular biologist and biosemantics specialist.

Laurence Daniel Hurst (born 1965) FMedSci FRS is a Professor of Evolutionary Genetics in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath and the director of the Milner Centre for Evolution.

Professor Lawrence E.

Ram Samudrala is a professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the State University of New York in Buffalo, and formerly at the University of Washington in Seattle, United States.

Temple F. Smith (born March 7, 1939) is a university professor in biomedical engineering who helped to develop the Smith-Waterman algorithm with Michael Waterman in 1981.

Terence Paul "Terry" Speed (born 14 March 1943), FAA FRS is an Australian statistician.

Warren Richard Gish is the owner of Advanced Biocomputing LLC.

Wentian Li is a bioinformatician.

Orengo studied Chemical Physics at the University of Bristol where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree.

David Baker (born October 6, 1962 in Seattle, Washington) is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to predict and design the three-dimensional structures of proteins.

Dana Pe'er is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University and regarded as one of the leading researchers in computational systems biology.

David T. Jones is a Professor of Bioinformatics, and Head of Bioinformatics Group in the University College London.

Eran Elhaik (born 1980 in Israel) is an Israeli-American geneticist and bioinformatician.

Janet Kelso is a South African computational biologist and Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Michael Ira Miller (born 1955), an American biomedical engineer and neuroscientist is a leading researcher in brain mapping in the field of medical imaging at Johns Hopkins University.

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.

Amos Bairoch (born 22 November 1957) is a Swiss bioinformatician and Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Human Protein Sciences of the University of Geneva where he leads the CALIPHO group at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) combining bioinformatics, curation, and experimental efforts to functionally characterize human proteins.

Regev completed her Ph.

John Quackenbush (born January 4, 1962) is an American computational biologist and genome scientist.

Attwood gained her Bachelor of Science in Biophysics from the University of Leeds in 1982.

Ron Yair Pinter (Hebrew: רון יאיר פינטר‎‎) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in computational systems biology, integrated circuit layout and compiler optimization.

Don R. Swanson (October 10, 1924 – November 18, 2012) was an American information scientist, most known for his work in literature-based discovery in the biomedical domain.

Palsson received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1984 under the supervision of Edwin N.

Eran Segal is a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava is an Indian bio-informatician and head of the Bioinformatics Centre at the Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH).

From 1991 to 1994 McVean completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Professor Nils Gunnar Hansson von Heijne, born June 10, 1951 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish scientist working on signal peptides, membrane proteins and bioinformatics at the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research at Stockholm University.

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés (PhD) is Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Stein completed a Doctor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Cell Biology at Harvard University both in 1989 via the MD-PhD program.

Sean Roberts Eddy is a scientist who leads a research group at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus in Virginia, with interests in bioinformatics, computational biology and biological sequence analysis.

Sepp Hochreiter (born 1967, in Mühldorf) is a German computer scientist working in the fields of machine learning and bioinformatics.

Alfonso Valencia is a Spanish biologist, the current director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute and the Structural and Computational Biology Group leader at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).

Ziv Bar-Joseph is an Israeli computational biologist and Associate Professor in the Computational Biology Department and the Machine Learning Department at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.

Mathieu Daniel Blanchette is a computational biologist and Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University.

Trey Ideker is the Chief of Genetics and Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Alicia Yinema Kate Nungarai Oshlack is an Australian bioinformatician and is Head of Bioinformatics at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

David Bates (born June 5, 1957) is an American-born physician, biomedical informatician, and professor, who is internationally renowned for his work regarding the use of health information technology (HIT) to improve the safety and quality of healthcare, in particular by using Clinical Decision Support.

Gad Menahem Landau (born 1954) is an Israeli computer scientist noted for his contributions to combinatorial pattern matching and string algorithms and is the founding department chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Haifa.

Jonathan Andrew Eisen (born August 31, 1968) is an American evolutionary biologist, currently working at University of California, Davis.

Werner G. Krebs (born ca. 1977) is an American data scientist.

Dr. Margaret Belle (Oakley) Dayhoff (March 11, 1925 – February 5, 1983) was an American physical chemist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics.

Carole Anne Goble, CBE FREng FBCS, CITP (born 10 April 1961) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK.

James Andrew Cuff, (born Preston, Lancashire) is a British biophysicist.

Gary Stormo (born 1950) is an American geneticist and currently Joseph Erlanger Professor in the Department of Genetics and the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis.

Gough was educated at The Perse School in Cambridge and the University of Bristol where he was awarded a joint honours degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1998.

Professor Anders Krogh is a bioinformatician at the University of Copenhagen, where he leads the university's bioinformatics center.

Chothia was educated at Alleyn's School, then went to study at Durham University graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965.

Gheorghe Păun (Romanian: [ˈɡe̯orɡe pəˈun]; born December 6, 1950 in Cicănești, Argeș County) is a computer scientist from Romania, prominent for work on membrane computing and the P system.

Troyanskaya completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Biology at the University of Richmond in 1999 and her Ph.

Steven Lloyd Salzberg (born 1960) is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University.

Stephen H. Muggleton FBCS, FIET, FAAAI,FECCAI, FSB, FREng (born 6 December 1959, son of Louis Muggleton) is Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at Imperial College London.

Steven Elliot Brenner is a professor at the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California Berkeley, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, and San FranciscoFaculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Warren Lyford DeLano (June 21, 1972 – November 3, 2009) was an advocate for the increased adoption of open source practices in the sciences, and especially drug discovery, where advances which save time and resources can also potentially save lives.

Professor Simon Tavaré, FRS, FMedSci, CSci, CStat, is Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Professor of Cancer Research (Bioinformatics) at the Department of Oncology and Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, also at Cambridge.

Sternberg was educated at Hendon County Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics) in 1972.

Ron Shamir (Hebrew: רון שמיר; born 29 November 1953) is an Israeli professor of computer science known for his work in graph theory and in computational biology.

Abecasis is the oldest of 12 children in his family, born in Moura to José Manuel and Maria Teresa.

John B. Hogenesch (born May 29, 1967) is an American chronobiologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Robert Lee Grossman is an American computer scientist and bioinformatician at the University of Chicago.

Philip Eric Bourne (born 1953) is a United States researcher in health informatics, former Associate Vice Chancellor at UCSD, non-fiction writer, and entrepreneur.

Yves A. Lussier, M.

Barry Smith (born June 4, 1952) is an academic working especially in the fields of ontology and biomedical informatics.

David Haussler (born 1953) is an American bioinformatician known for his work leading the team that assembled the first human genome sequence in the race to complete the Human Genome Project and subsequently for comparative genome analysis that deepens understanding the molecular function and evolution of the genome.

Eugene Wimberly "Gene" Myers, Jr.

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 and its successors).

Antoine Danchin (born 7 May 1944) is a French geneticist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of adenylate cyclase, to modelisation of learning in the nervous system and the early development of genomics and bioinformatics.

Hiroaki Kitano (北野 宏明, born 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese scientist.

John Frederick William Birney, known as Ewan, (born 1972) FRS FMedSci is joint Director with Rolf Apweiler of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.

Li majored in physics at Nanjing University during 1997-2001.

Marco Ramoni (April 13, 1963 – June 8, 2010) was a recognized a translational biostatistician and bioinformatician at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston, affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Nir Friedman (born 1967) is an Israeli Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Robert F. Murphy is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology and head of the Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning.

Robert Clifford Gentleman (born 1959) is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician currently vice president of computational biology at 23andMe.

Roderic Dugald Morton Page (born 1962), is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of several books.

Heinrich Magnus Manske (born 24 May 1974 in Cologne, Germany) is a senior staff scientist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and a software developer of one of the first versions of the MediaWiki software.

Emmott was educated at the University of York gaining a first-class Bachelor of Science degree in Experimental Psychology in 1987.

Professor Michael Spencer Waterman (born June 28, 1942) is a scientist at the University of Southern California (USC), where he holds an Endowed Associates Chair in Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science.

Pierre Baldi is a chancellor's professor of computer science at University of California, Irvine and the director of its Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics.

Chris Sander is a computational biologist and chair of the Computational Biology Programme at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Dronamraju Krishna Rao (born January 14, 1937) is an Indian-born geneticist and president of the Foundation for Genetic Research in Houston, Texas.

Mark Bender Gerstein is an American scientist working in bioinformatics.

Russ Biagio Altman is a scientist at Stanford University Medical School, where he is chair of the department of Bioengineering and director of the program in Biomedical Informatics.

Ruth Nussinov is a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and is the Senior Principal Scientist and Principal Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.

A. Jamie Cuticchia, Ph.

Charles "Chip" Lawrence is an American bioinformatician and mathematician, who is the pioneer in developing novel statistical approaches to biological sequence analysis.

Gavaghan completed his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Durham University in 1986, a Master of Science in Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modelling in 1987 and his Doctor of Philosophy on the development of Parallel Numerical Algorithms in 1991 at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Lipman received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his M.

Edward ("Ted") Hance Shortliffe (born 1947) is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist.

Edward Nikolayevich Trifonov (Эдуapд Тpифoнoв; Hebrew: אדוארד טריפונוב‎‎; b. March 31, 1937) is a Russian-born Israeli molecular biophysicist and a founder of Israeli bioinformatics.

Halbert L. Dunn, M.

Julio Collado-Vides is a Guatemalan scientist and Professor of Computational Genomics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Dame Janet Maureen Thornton, DBE, FRS, FMedSci (born 23 May 1949) is a senior scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

Jason H. Moore, is a translational bioinformatics scientist and human geneticist, the Edward Rose Professor of Informatics and Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also Associate Dean for Informatics and Director of the Division of Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology