Stephen Altschul

Stephen Altschul

Stephen Frank Altschul (born February 28, 1957) is an American mathematician who has designed algorithms that are widely used in the field of bioinformatics (the Karlin-Altschul algorithm and its successors). Most notably, Altschul is the co-author of the BLAST algorithm used for sequence analysis of proteins and nucleotides.

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