Biography:William Pearson (scientist)
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Short description: American biochemist
William Pearson | |
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| Born | William Raymond Pearson |
| Education | |
| Known for | FASTA[3][4][5] |
| Awards | ISCB Fellow (2018)[6] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational biology[7] |
| Institutions | University of Virginia |
| Thesis | Studies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA (1977) |
| Website | www |
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.
Pearson was elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.[6]
Pearson graduated with a BS in chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in 1977 from CalTech. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.[8]
References
- ↑ William Pearson's Entry at ORCID
- ↑ Pearson, William Raymond (1977). Studies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA (PhD thesis). OCLC 637417263. ProQuest 302832904.
- ↑ 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. https://archive.org/details/molecularevoluti0000unse_d5p9/page/63.
- ↑ Lipman, D.; Pearson, W. (1985). "Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches". Science 227 (4693): 1435–1441. doi:10.1126/science.2983426. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 2983426.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.85.8.2444. PMID 3162770.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Anon (2018). "ISCB Fellows". International Society for Computational Biology. https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Biochemistry Research - Pearson". http://www.people.virginia.edu/~wrp/.
- ↑ "Pearson, William R.". https://med.virginia.edu/faculty/faculty-listing/wrp/.
- ↑ "Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program - William R. Pearson". http://bims.virginia.edu/faculty/william-r-pearson/.
- ↑ William Pearson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
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