Education
Myers received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the University of Colorado.
computer scientist bioinformatician
Myers received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the University of Colorado.
His 1990 paper (with Stephen Altschul and others) describing BLAST has received over 41,000 citations making it amongst the most highly cited papers ever. Along with Udi Manber, Myers invented the suffix array data structure. At Celera Genomics, Myers was involved in the sequencing of the human genome, as well as the genomes of Drosophila and mouse.
In particular, Myers advocated the use of the whole genome shotgun sequencing technique.
Later, he became group leader at the Janelia Farm Campus (JFRC) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2012, Myers moved to Dresden to become one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.
He will lead a new center for systems biology. His current research interests include computational reconstructions of neuroanatomical data, algorithms for analysis of functional neuroscience data, and genome assembly.
Gene was voted the most influential in bioinformatics in 2001 by Genome Technology Magazine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
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Myers was a member of the faculty of the University of Arizona, the Vice President of Informatics at Celera Genomics, and a member of the faculty at University of California Berkeley. Member of the National Academy of Engineering.