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Informatique / MYERS, EUGENE W.

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Position

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona currently on leave at Celera Genomics where he is the Vice President of Informatics Research with the 3 year mission of determing the sequence of the entire human genome.

Dr. Myers is an associate editor for the Journal of Computational Biology, and on the editorial boards of BioInformatics and RAIRO Informatique Theorique et Applications.

Thèmes de recherche

His research interests include design of algorithms, pattern matching, computer graphics, and computational molecular biology. His most recent academic work has focused on algorithms for the central combinatorial problems involved in DNA sequencing, and on a wide range of sequence and pattern comparison problems. Among the tools he has developed are Blast -- a widely used tool for protein similarity searches, FAKtory -- a system to support DNA sequencing projects, Anrep -- a pattern matching language for applications in molecular biology, and Mac- & PC-Molecule -- a molecular visualization tool for Apple and Wintel computers.

Prix et récompenses

- ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2001)
- IEEE 3rd Millenium Achievement Award (2000)
- Faculty of Science Distinguished Teaching Award (U. of Arizona, 1989)
- University of Colorado Fellowship (U. of Colorado, 1976-1979)
- Honeywell Outstanding Junior Engineer (Caltech, 1974)
Tau Beta Pi (Caltech, 1974)

Publications

Refereed Journals:

E. Myers, ``A Fast Bit-Vector Algorithm for Approximate String Matching Based on Dynamic Progamming,'' J. of ACM, accepted for publication. (Also accepted to: Ninth Combinatorial Pattern Matching Conference (Piscataway, NJ, 1998), 1-13.)

E. Myers, ``Whole-Genome DNA Sequencing,'' IEEE Computational Engineering and Science 3, 1 (1999), 33-43.

E. Myers, ... G. Rubin, M. Adams, and C. Venter ``A Whole-Genome Assembly of Drosophila,'' Science 287 (2000), 2196-2204.

M. Adams, ... E. Myers, G. Rubin, and C. Venter ``The Genome Sequence of Drosophila Melanogastor,'' Science 287 (2000), 2185-2195.

Books:

E. Myers and D. Hirschberg (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science #1075 (Heidelberg, 1996).

Book Chapters:

E. Myers, ``Advances in Sequence Assembly,'' in Automated DNA Sequencing and Analysis Techniques (C. Ventner, ed.), Academic Press Limited (London, England 1994), 231-238.

E. Myers, ``Algorithmic Advances for Searching Biosequence Databases,'' in Computational Methods in Genome Research (S. Suhai, ed.), Plenum Press (New York, 1994), 121-135.

E. Myers, ``Seeing Conserved Signals: Using algorithms to detect similarities between biosequences,'' in Calculating the Secrets of life: Applications of the Mathematical Sciences in Molecular Biology (E. Lander and M. Waterman, eds.), National Academy Press (Washington, D.C. 1995), 56-89.

E. Myers and J. Weber, ``Is Whole Genome Shotgun Sequencing Feasible?,'' in Computational Methods in Genome Research (S. Suhai, ed.), Plenum Press (New York, 1996), 73-89.