Lincoln Stein

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Lincoln Stein
Lincoln Stein with (far right) Alfonso Valencia (far left) and Sarah Teichmann (center) at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2016 in Orlando, Florida.
Born
Lincoln David Stein

1960 (age 63–64)[3]
Alma materHarvard University (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsGenome Informatics[2]
Institutions
ThesisCloning of developmentally regulated genes from Schistosoma mansoni (1989)
Websiteoicr.on.ca/investigators/lincoln-stein

Lincoln David Stein is a scientist and Professor in bioinformatics and computational biology at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.[2][4][5]

Education

Stein completed a

MD-PhD program. His thesis investigated gene cloning in Schistosoma mansoni.[6]

Career

From 1992-1997 he was a director of informatics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Genome Centre, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research. From 1998 to 2004 he was an associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He has been working at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research since 2007.[citation needed]

Research

Stein's current research projects[2][5] include Reactome,[7] WormBase,[7] BioPerl,[8] Gramene,[9] ENCODE,[10][11][12] the Generic Model Organism Database,[13] the Sequence Ontology[14] and Cloud computing.[15]

Stein is also the original developer of CGI.pm and a contributor to mod_perl, both widely used in the Perl programming language for web applications, as well as many other Perl modules and associated books.[16][17][18][19][20]

Awards and honours

Stein was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) in 2004.[21] He was elected an ISCB Fellow in 2016 by the International Society for Computational Biology.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Anon (2017). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20.
  2. ^ a b c Lincoln Stein publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. ^ "116663444".
  4. ^ "The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research". Archived from the original on 2011-04-22.
  5. ^ a b Lincoln Stein's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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  21. ^ http://www.bioinformatics.org/franklin/2004/ 2004 Benjamin Franklin Award Awarded to Lincoln D. Stein