Jim Kent
Jim Kent | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz |
Awards | Overton Prize Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Patching and painting the working draft of the human genome (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Alan M Zahler |
Other academic advisors | David Haussler[1] |
Website | www |
William James Kent (born February 10, 1960) is an American
Early life
Kent was born in
Computer animation
Kent began his programming career in 1983 with Island Graphics Inc. where he wrote the Aegis Animator program for the
Involvement with the Human Genome Project
In 2000, he wrote a program, GigAssembler,
After GigAssembler, Kent went on to write BLAT (BLAST-like alignment tool) [10] and the UCSC Genome Browser [11] to help analyze important genome data. Kent continues to work at UCSC primarily on web tools to help understand the human genome. He helps maintain and upgrade the browser, and has worked on comparative genomics,[12] Parasol, a job control management software for the UCSC kilocluster, and the ENCODE Project.
References
- PMID 23382705.
- ^ "Aegis Animator ST and Art Pak ST". Atarimagazines.com. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
- ^ "Cyber Paint". Ataricq.org. 2009-05-23. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
- ^ Breton Slivka (2009-05-08). "Busting at the Seams: Autodesk Animator". Bustingseams.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
- PMID 11544197.
- ^ "Jim Kent, hero of free and open source software". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2010-09-19.
- PMID 11237011.
- S2CID 85981305.
- ^ "Index of /~kent/src". Hgwdev.cse.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
- PMID 11932250.
- PMID 12045153.
- PMID 14500911.