Warren Lyford DeLano

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Warren Lyford DeLano (born June 21, 1972 in Philadelphia , USA; † November 3, 2009 in Palo Alto ) was an American bioinformatician .

biography

DeLano was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Palo Alto. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in Computer Science and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1993. He then moved to the University of California (UCSF) to do his doctorate there . He received his PhD from the University of California in 1999. His doctoral thesis received the Julius Krevans Award for the best doctoral thesis of the year at UCSF and was published in Science . In 2000 he published the first version of PyMOL on the Internet. From 2003 he sold the program under his company DeLano Scientific LLC . Warren L. DeLano died unexpectedly on November 3, 2009 at his home in Palo Alto.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wldmemorialfund.org/WLDMemorialFund/In_Memoriam.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.wldmemorialfund.org  
  2. ↑ http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v16/n12/full/nsmb1209-1202.html
  3. ↑ http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/287/5456/1279
  4. ↑ http://www.hmbreview.com/obituaries/warren-l-delano/article_fd9bd938-1cba-5a5b-bb43-1e67bbd6dcda.html Half Moon Bay Review Obituary (Engl.)
personal data
SURNAME DeLano, Warren Lyford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bioinformatician
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , USA
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2009
Place of death Palo Alto