Stephen Altschul
Stephen Altschul · Science & Medicine
Computational biologist, co-developer of the BLAST sequence-alignment algorithm
1957, USA
United States
Stephen Altschul is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Computational biologist, co-developer of the BLAST sequence-alignment algorithm
Stephen Frank Altschul is an American mathematician and computational biologist, co-author of the BLAST algorithm (1990), the most widely used tool for searching biological sequence databases, and co-developer with Samuel Karlin of its underlying statistical theory. He is listed among Jewish scientists by Jewish biographical sources, though his own biographies do not detail his religious identity.
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Computational biologist, co-developer of the BLAST sequence-alignment algorithm
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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