Martin Vingron

Martin Vingron (born October 5, 1961 in Vienna ) is an Austrian bioinformatician and has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics since 2000 .

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Vingron grew up in Vienna , where he also studied mathematics at the university . For a doctorate in mathematics ( University of Heidelberg 1991), he went to Patrick Argos at EMBL . After postdoctoral positions with Michael Waterman at the University of Southern California and Thomas Lengauer at the GMD Research Center for Information Technology (AiS) in Sankt Augustin , he was head of the “Theoretical Bioinformatics” department at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) from 1995 to 1999 . Since 2000 he has been director of bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin and since 2001 professor at the Free University of Berlin .

His early work deals with sequence alignment .

Martin Vingron has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2004 . Also in 2004, he and Gene Myers were awarded the Max Planck Research Prize. In 2014 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .

With Ho-Ryun Chung, Dennis Kostka: A physical model for tiling array analysis , Bioinformatics 23 pp. I80-i86 (2007)
With Heiko A. Schmidt, Korbinian Strimmer , Arndt von Haeseler : TREE-PUZZLE: maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis using quartets and parallel computing , Bioinformatics, 18 pp. 502–504 (2002)
With Rainer Spang : Limits of homology detection by pairwise sequence comparison Bioinformatics, 17 pp. 338–342 (2001)
Bioinformatics needs to adopt statistical thinking , Bioinformatics, 17 pp. 389-390 (2001)
With Arndt von Haeseler: Towards integration of multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree construction , J. Comp. Biol., 4 pp. 23-34 (1997).
With Michael Waterman: Alignment Networks and electrical networks , Discr. Appl. Math., 71 pp. 297-309 (1996)
With Patrick Argos: A fast and sensitive multiple sequence alignment algorithm , CABIOS, 5 pp. 115-121 (1989)