David Sankoff

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David Sankoff
David Sankoff at "Models and Algorithms for Genome Evolution" in 2013, Bromont, Quebec.
Born (1942-12-31) December 31, 1942 (age 81)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Alma materMcGill University (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisHistorical Linguistics as a Stochastic Process (1969)
Doctoral advisorDonald Andrew Dawson[5]
Websitealbuquerque.bioinformatics.uottawa.ca

David Sankoff (born December 31, 1942) is a Canadian mathematician,

Pavel Pevzner's words,[2]
"Michael Waterman and David Sankoff are responsible for transforming bioinformatics from a ‘stamp collection' of ill-defined problems into a rigorous discipline with important biological applications."

Education

Sankoff published his first paper in 1963

code switching.[16]

Career and research

After completing his Ph.D. in Mathematics, Sankoff began his academic career at the

University of Montreal in 1969. In 1971, Sankoff became interested in molecular sequence comparison[11] and devised the first quadratic-time variant of the Needleman–Wunsch algorithm for pairwise sequence alignment.[17]
In 1973, Sankoff and Robert Cedergren developed a
longest common subsequence problem on random inputs;[19] the constants of proportionality arising in this study have come to be known as the Chvátal–Sankoff constants
. In 1980, Robert Cedergen and David Sankoff created the first research group in bioinformatics at the
genome rearrangements, sequence alignment, genome evolution and phylogenetics.[21]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ a b Anon (2017). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20.
  2. ^
    PMC 1526462
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  3. ^ a b David Sankoff publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. John Benjamins
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  5. ^ David Sankoff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. OCLC 921307274.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  7. ^ "BMC Bioinformatics". Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology". Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Journal of Computational Biology". Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 43". Retrieved 8 June 2019.
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    PMID 10812476
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  12. PMID 14081366
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  13. JSTOR 412307
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  14. JSTOR 412441
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  15. ^ :Sankoff, D.; S. Laberge (1978). "The linguistic market and the statistical explanation of variability". In D. Sankoff (ed.), Linguistic Variation: Models and Methods (pp. 239-250). New York: Academic Press.
  16. doi:10.1080/08351818109370523
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  17. PMID 4500555
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  18. PMID 4201431
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  19. S2CID 250345191
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  20. ^ "History of the Robert Cedergren Centre". Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  21. ^ Anon (2003). "ISCB Senior Scientist Award to Sankoff". iscb.org/iscb-awards. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  22. ^ a b "David Sankoff". Research. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  23. ^ "Prix Acfas Thérèse Gouin-Décarie (Prix Marcel-Vincent before 2013)". Acfas PRIX (in French). 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  24. ^ Professor Angela McLean awarded the Weldon Medal. 2018-05-17.
  25. ^ "David Sankoff - Excellence in Research Award". Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  26. ^ "Co-founder of bioinformatics to receive an honorary doctorate". Mathematics. 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
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