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January 10, 2006
Dr. Steven Salzberg, Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Horvitz Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland, 1/4/06
Dr. Steven Salzberg is the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) and the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. For much of the past ten years, Dr. Salzberg has been working on the analysis of genomes in collaboration with colleagues at The Institute for Genomic Research and at other research centers around the world. He was part of the team that published the human genome in 2001, and has participated in the sequencing of genomes from a long list of human pathogens, including the microbes responsible for anthrax, Lyme disease, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Dr. Salzberg's group devotes much of its effort to the development of software for genome analysis, and they have been among the leading advocates of open-source software development in the genomics field. In 2004, Dr. Salzberg was one of the founders of the Influenza Genome Sequencing Project, which is now in the process of sequencing thousands of isolates of the influenza virus, in an effort to help design better vaccines and to better understand the nature of influenza pandemics.
Dr. Salzberg has authored or co-authored two books and over 125 publications in leading scientific journals, and he currently serves on the editorial boards of seven journals. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Board of Scientific Counsellors of the National Center for Biotechnology Information at NIH.
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