Biography:Webb Miller
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Webb Miller | |
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| Born | Webb Colby Miller 1943 (age 80–81) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Known for | BLAST |
| Awards | ISCB Senior Scientist Award[1] ISCB Fellow[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genomics Bioinformatics Evolution[3] |
| Institutions | The Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis | Toward Abstract Numerical Analysis (1969) |
| Website | www |
Webb Colby Miller (born 1943) is a professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University.[4][3]
Education
Miller attended Whitman College, and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Washington in 1969.[5]
Research and career
He joined Penn State in September 1985. Prior to that, he had held a position as permanent staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and served on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Arizona. He is a fellow of ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology).
Miller has been developing algorithms and software for analyzing DNA sequences and related types of data from molecular genetics. He is one of the authors of BLAST.[6][7] He also develops methods for aligning long DNA sequences and extracting functional information from them. Webb Miller has made important contributions to the analysis of many vertebrate genomes. He is regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of computational biology.
Webb Miller's recent research interests[8][9] include the bioinformatics of species extinction, collaborating with Stephan Schuster, who is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State. In November 2008, they published a paper in Nature that described a draft sequence for the woolly mammoth genome.[10]
Awards
Miller was awarded the ISCB Senior Scientist Award[1] and elected an ISCB Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology in 2009.[2] He is also among The 2009 Time 100.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Morrison Mckay, B. J.; Sansom, C. (2009). "Webb Miller and Trey Ideker to Receive Top International Bioinformatics Awards for 2009 from the International Society for Computational Biology". PLOS Computational Biology 5 (4): e1000375. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000375. PMID 19390599.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anon (2017). "ISCB Fellows". International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20170320114530/https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Miller%2C+Webb+Colby%2C+1943-%22
- ↑ Webb Miller at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Altschul, S.; Gish, W.; Miller, W.; Myers, E.; Lipman, D. (1990). "Basic Local Alignment Search Tool". Journal of Molecular Biology 215 (3): 403–410. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80360-2. PMID 2231712.
- ↑ Altschul, S.; Madden, T. L.; Schäffer, A. A.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, Z.; Miller, W.; Lipman, D. J. (1997). "Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: A new generation of protein database search programs". Nucleic Acids Research 25 (17): 3389–3402. doi:10.1093/nar/25.17.3389. PMID 9254694.
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ {{DBLP}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ Miller, W.; Drautz, D. I.; Ratan, A.; Pusey, B.; Qi, J.; Lesk, A. M.; Tomsho, L. P.; Packard, M. D. et al. (2008). "Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth". Nature 456 (7220): 387–390. doi:10.1038/nature07446. PMID 19020620. http://www.schusterlab.com/PDFs/miller_Nature_2008.pdf.[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
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