Background
Durbin, Richard Michael was born on December 30, 1960 in London, England. Son of James and Anne Dearnley (Outhwaite) Durbin.
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Probablistic models are becoming increasingly important in analyzing the huge amount of data being produced by large-scale DNA-sequencing efforts such as the Human Genome Project. For example, hidden Markov models are used for analyzing biological sequences, linguistic-grammar-based probabilistic models for identifying RNA secondary structure, and probabilistic evolutionary models for inferring phylogenies of sequences from different organisms. This book gives a unified, up-to-date and self-contained account, with a Bayesian slant, of such methods, and more generally to probabilistic methods of sequence analysis. Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, it is accessible to molecular biologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians with no formal knowledge of the other fields, and at the same time presents the state of the art in this new and important field.
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Durbin, Richard Michael was born on December 30, 1960 in London, England. Son of James and Anne Dearnley (Outhwaite) Durbin.
Bachelor in Mathematics, Cambridge (England) University, 1982; Doctor of Philosophy in Biology, Cambridge (England) University, 1987.
Research fellow King's College, Cambridge, 1986-1988. Staff scientist Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 1990-1996. Principal investigator The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, since 1993, head informatics, deputy director, 1997—2006.
Lucille P. Markey visiting fellow Stanford (California) University, 1988-1990.
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Fellow: Royal Statistical Society, Royal Society. Member: Genetics Society, International Society Computational Biology, Human Genome Organization.
Married Julie Ahringer. Children: Zoe, Benjamin.