Stephen Altschul
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 |
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.