Steven Salzberg
Steven Salzberg | |
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The Institute for Genomic Research Johns Hopkins University | |
Thesis | Learning with nested generalized exemplars (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | William Aaron Woods[1] |
Doctoral students | |
Other notable students | Olga Troyanskaya[2] |
Website | salzberg-lab |
Steven Lloyd Salzberg (born 1960) is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also Director of the Center for Computational Biology.
Early life and education
Salzberg was born in 1960 as one of four children to Herman Salzberg, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, and Adele Salzberg, a retired school teacher.
Career
After obtaining his undergraduate degree, he worked for a local power company in South Carolina, where he gained programming experience using IBM mainframe.[11] He also learned COBOL and IBM Assembler. He then joined a Boston-based AI startup upon completion of his masters degree in Computer Science.[11]
After earning his Ph.D., Salzberg joined Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and was promoted to associate professor in 1997. From 1998 to 2005, he was the head of the
In 2013, Salzberg won the Benjamin Franklin award[14] in bioinformatics.
In March 2015, he was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University for his accomplishments as an interdisciplinary researcher and excellence in teaching the next generation of scholars.[15] The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships were established in 2013 by a gift from Michael Bloomberg.[16] Salzberg holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Research
Salzberg has been a prominent scientist in the field of
Salzberg together with
Soon after the advent of
Salzberg has also been a vocal advocate against pseudoscience and has authored editorials and appeared in print media on this topic. Since 2010, he has written a column at Forbes magazine[22] on science, medicine, and pseudoscience, where he has published hundreds of articles that have received tens of millions of views. His work at Forbes won the 2012 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking.[23]
Salzberg was a charter member of the
Publications
Salzberg has authored or co-authored over 300 scientific publications.[25] He has more than 300,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 159.[26] In 2014 and every year since (through at least 2022), Salzberg was selected for inclusion in HighlyCited.com, a ranking compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information of scientists who are among the top 1% most cited for their subject field during the previous ten years. He was also chosen for this list when it was first created in 2001. This list of highly cited researchers continues under Clarivate, and Salzberg was also included in the list in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.[27]
Highly cited articles (more than 10,000 citations)
- 2012 with B Langmead, Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2, in: Nature Methods. Vol. 9, nº 4; 357.
- 2009 With B Langmead, C Trapnell, M Pop, Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome, in: Genome Biology. Vol. 10, nº 3; 1–10.
- 2001 with JC Venter, MD Adams, EW Myers, PW Li, RJ Mural, et al., The sequence of the human genome, in: Science. Vol. 291, nº 5507; 1304–1351.
- 2015 with D Kim, B Langmead, HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements, in: Nature Methods Vol. 12, 357–360. (2015)
- 2010 with C Trapnell, BA Williams, G Pertea, A Mortazavi, G Kwan, MJ Van Baren, BJ Wold, L Pachter, Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation, in: Nature Biotechnology. Vol. 28, nº 5; 511–515.
- 2009 with C Trapnell, L Pachter, TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq, in: Bioinformatics. Vol. 25, nº 9; 1105–1111.
- 2013 with D Kim, G Pertea, C Trapnell, H Pimentel, R Kelley, TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions, in: Genome Biology. Vol. 14, nº 4; 1–13.
- 2012 with C Trapnell, A Roberts, L Goff, G Pertea, D Kim, DR Kelley, H Pimentel, JL Rinn, L Pachter. Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks, in: Nature Protocols. Vol. 7, nº 3; 562-578.
- 2011 with T Magoč. FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies, in: Bioinformatics. Vol. 27, nº 21; 2957-2963.
- 2000 with The Arabidopsis Genome Initiative. Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana, in: Nature. Vol. 408, nº 6814; 796-815.
Awards
- 2020 Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award, International Society for Computational Biology
- 2014-2022 Named Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson Reuters/Clarivate
- 2018 Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2020 Elected Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- 2013 Elected Fellow, International Society for Computational Biology
- 2013 Robert G. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking
- 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) for Open Access in the Life Sciences
- 2007 Hot 100 Authors, BioMed Central
- 2004 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1996 NIH Career Award[28]
References
- ^ a b Steven Salzberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- PMC 3107244.
- PMID 9421513.
- PMID 10325427.
- PMID 17324286.
- PMID 19261174.
- PMID 19289445.
- ^ a b ccb.jhu.edu Brief biosketch
- ^ "Steven Salzberg: brief biography". Salzberg Lab. 2015-02-21. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ProQuest 303755625.
- ^ a b Fogg, Christina; Kovats, Diane; Shamir, Ron (October 29, 2021). "2020 ISCB accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award: Steven Salzberg". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ Editorial on evolution and the flu, Philadelphia Inquirer
- ^ "Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships | Steven Salzberg". Johns Hopkins Office of Research. 9 September 2016.
- ^ "Steven Salzberg on Microbial Genomes, Open Access, Flu Shots and Gene Patents".
- ^ "With Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships, Johns Hopkins aims to foster cross-specialty collaboration 2014". 2014-02-17.
- ^ "Michael R. Bloomberg Commits $350 Million to Johns Hopkins for Transformational Academic Initiative 2013".
- PMID 10556321.
- PMID 11181995.
- S2CID 15470665.
- PMID 16208317.
- PMID 16026181.
- ^ Salzberg's column at Forbes
- ^ "Skeptic Authors Steven Salzberg and Joe Nickell to Receive Balles Prize in Critical Thinking". 14 June 2013.
- ^ Baker, Nicholson. (4 January 2021). "The Lab-Leak Hypothesis For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?". New York magazine Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ^ "Steven Salzberg, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering". Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "Steven Salzberg". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "Highly Cited Researchers". publons.com. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "Steven Salzberg, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering". Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
External links
- genome.fieldofscience.com Salzberg's science blog
- Salzberg's column at Forbes magazine
- cs.duke.edu Duke Computer Science Colloquia Steven Salzberg - includes biography
- Open source software from the Salzberg lab and other groups in the Hopkins Center for Computational Biology
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