Sean Eddy

Sean Eddy
Sean Eddy
	Sean Eddy
Born	Sean Roberts Eddy
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology (BS); University of Colorado (PhD);
Known for	HMMER; Infernal; Pfam; Rfam;
Awards	Ben Franklin award (2007)
	Scientific career
Fields	Computational Genome Analysis
Institutions	Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI); Janelia Farm Research Campus; Washington University in St. Louis; California Institute of Technology; University of Colorado; Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB);
Thesis	Introns in the T-even bacteriophages (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Larry Gold
Other academic advisors	John Sulston; Richard Durbin
Website	cryptogenomicon.org; www.hhmi.org/scientists/sean-r-eddy;

Sean Roberts Eddy is Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. Previously he was based at the Janelia Research Campus from 2006 to 2015 in Virginia. His research interests are in bioinformatics, computational biology and biological sequence analysis. As of 2016 projects include the use of Hidden Markov models in HMMER, Infernal Pfam and Rfam.