The genome assembly algorithms
Who
Eric Lander, an American Jewish mathematician and geneticist, with mathematician Michael Waterman (the Lander–Waterman model).
When
1988
Where
United States
Assembling a genome means computationally reconstructing a full DNA sequence from millions of short fragments, essential to the Human Genome Project. A key mathematical foundation is the 1988 Lander–Waterman model, co-developed by Eric Lander, a Jewish-American mathematician who became a leader of the genome-sequencing effort.
Sources
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