William Pearson (scientist)

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William Pearson
Born
William Raymond Pearson
Education
Known forFASTA[3][4][5]
AwardsISCB Fellow (2018)[6]
Scientific career
FieldsComputational biology[7]
InstitutionsUniversity of Virginia
ThesisStudies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA (1977)
Websitewww.people.virginia.edu/~wrp

William Raymond Pearson is professor of biochemistry and molecular Genetics in the School of Medicine[7][8] at the University of Virginia.[9][10][11] Pearson is best known for the development of the FASTA format.

Education[]

Pearson graduated with a BS in chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in 1977 from CalTech.[2]

Career and research[]

After his PhD, Pearson did a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.[8] Pearson's research interests are in computational biology.[7] He was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ William Pearson's ORCID 0000-0002-0727-3680
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Pearson, William Raymond (1977). Studies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA (PhD thesis). OCLC 637417263. ProQuest 302832904.
  3. ^ Pearson, William R. (1990). "Rapid and sensitive sequence comparison with FASTP and FASTA". Methods in Enzymology. 183: 63–98. doi:10.1016/0076-6879(90)83007-V. ISBN 9780121820848. ISSN 0076-6879. PMID 2156132. closed access
  4. ^ Lipman, D.; Pearson, W. (1985). "Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches". Science. 227 (4693): 1435–1441. Bibcode:1985Sci...227.1435L. doi:10.1126/science.2983426. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 2983426. closed access
  5. ^ Pearson, W. R.; Lipman, D. J. (1988). "Improved tools for biological sequence comparison". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 85 (8): 2444–2448. Bibcode:1988PNAS...85.2444P. doi:10.1073/pnas.85.8.2444. PMC 280013. PMID 3162770.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Anon (2018). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c William Pearson publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "Biochemistry Research - Pearson". www.people.virginia.edu.
  9. ^ "Pearson, William R." med.virginia.edu.
  10. ^ "Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program - William R. Pearson". bims.virginia.edu.
  11. ^ William Pearson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)



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