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]