William Pearson (scientist)

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.

For other people named William Pearson, see William Pearson (disambiguation).
William Pearson
Born
William Raymond Pearson
Education
Known forFASTA[3][4][5]
AwardsISCB Fellow (2018)[6]
Scientific career
FieldsComputational biology[7]
InstitutionsUniversity of Virginia
ThesisStudies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA (1977)
Websitewww.people.virginia.edu/~wrp

Education

Pearson graduated with a BS in chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in 1977 from CalTech.[2]

Career and research

After his PhD, Pearson did a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.[8] Pearson's research interests are in computational biology.[7] He was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.[6]

References
  1. William Pearson's ORCID 0000-0002-0727-3680
  2. Pearson, William Raymond (1977). Studies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA (PhD thesis). OCLC 637417263. ProQuest 302832904.
  3. 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.
  4. Lipman, D.; Pearson, W. (1985). "Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches". Science. 227 (4693): 1435–1441. Bibcode:1985Sci...227.1435L. doi:10.1126/science.2983426. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 2983426.
  5. 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. Bibcode:1988PNAS...85.2444P. doi:10.1073/pnas.85.8.2444. PMC 280013. PMID 3162770.
  6. Anon (2018). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
  7. William Pearson publications indexed by Google Scholar
  8. "Biochemistry Research - Pearson". www.people.virginia.edu.
  9. "Pearson, William R." med.virginia.edu.
  10. "Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program - William R. Pearson". bims.virginia.edu.
  11. William Pearson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)


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