Stephen Altschul
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). Altschul is the co-author of the BLAST algorithm used for sequence analysis of proteins and nucleotides.
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 |
| Website | www |
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