William Pearson (scientist)
William R Pearson | |
|---|---|
| Born | William Raymond Pearson |
| Education |
|
| Known for | AAAS Fellow (2008)[1] ISCB Fellow (2018)[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational biology[3] |
| Institutions | University of Virginia |
| Thesis | Studies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA (1977) |
| Website | fasta |
William Raymond Pearson is
molecular Genetics in the School of Medicine[3][9] at the University of Virginia.[10][11][12] Pearson is best known for the development of the FASTA
format.
Education
Pearson graduated with a BS in chemistry from the
Caltech.[5] As a graduate student, he published several papers describing computer programs for analyzing biological data.[13][14]
Career and research
After his PhD, Pearson did a
postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. In 1983, he joined the faculty of Biochemistry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.[10] Immediately after joining the faculty, he collaborated with David J. Lipman at the NIH to write the FASTP program,[7] and later FASTA.[8] Pearson's research interests are in computational biology.[3] He was named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow in 2008, and an International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Fellow in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics
.
[1]
[2]
References
- ^ a b Anon (2008). "AAAS fellows". www.aaas.org.
- ^ a b Anon (2018). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
- ^ a b c William Pearson publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ORCID 0000-0002-0727-3680
- ^ ProQuest 302832904.
- PMID 2156132.
- ^ PMID 2983426.
- ^ PMID 3162770.
- ^ "Biochemistry Research - Pearson". fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/wrpearson.
- ^ a b "Pearson, William R." med.virginia.edu.
- ^ "Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program - William R. Pearson". bims.virginia.edu.
- ^ William Pearson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- PMID 4831079.
- PMID 896473.
| Authority control databases: Academics |
|---|
   | This article about an American biochemist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |