Gary Stormo
Gary Stormo (born 1950 in South Dakota ) is an American geneticist . He is considered one of the pioneers in bioinformatics .
Stormo first studied physics at Caltech , but soon switched to biology. He received his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder with Larry Gold. In the 1980s there were also other well-known bioinformaticians at the university ( Eugene Myers , David Haussler ) who exchanged ideas at seminars given by the mathematician Andrzej Ehrenfeucht , who is active in this field . Stormo is the Joseph Erlanger Professor of Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis .
Stormo was in the 1980s, a pioneer in the development of computational methods for finding motifs (motifs), specific patterns in the sequence data of genes. In particular, he was interested in recurring patterns in gene regulation, which became his main research area. He introduced profiles (or position-specific weight matrices, PWM) into genetic analysis.
Fonts
- Stormo DNA binding sites: representation and discovery , Bioinformatics, Volume 16, 2000, pp. 16-23
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jones, Pevsner Introduction to bioinformatics algorithms , 2004, p. 116
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| SURNAME | Stormo, Gary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Dakota |