Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award
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The Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award is an annual prize awarded by the International Society for Computational Biology for contributions to the field of computational biology
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Computational biology
Computational biology involves the development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems...
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Laureates
- 2011 - Michael AshburnerMichael AshburnerMichael Ashburner FRS is a biologist and emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He is also the former joint-head of the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory .Born in Sussex, England, Ashburner attended High Wycombe...
- 2010 - Chris Sander
- 2009 - Webb MillerWebb MillerFor the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent, see Webb Miller .Webb Miller is a professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Washington in 1969. He...
- 2008 - David HausslerDavid HausslerDavid Haussler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is also Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences on...
- 2007 - Temple F. SmithTemple F. SmithTemple F. Smith is a university professor in biomedical engineering who helped to develop the Smith-Waterman algorithm developed with Michael Waterman in 1981. The Smith-Waterman algorithm serves as the basis for multi sequence comparisons, identifying the segment with the maximum local sequence...
- 2006 - Michael WatermanMichael WatermanProfessor Michael S. Waterman is a scientist at the University of Southern California , where he holds an Endowed Associates Chair in Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science. He previously held positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho State University...
- 2005 - Janet Thornton
- 2004 - David J. LipmanDavid J. LipmanDavid J. Lipman is an American biologist who since 1989 has been the Director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health. NCBI is the home of GenBank, the U.S. node of the International Sequence Database Consortium, and PubMed, one of the most heavily...
- 2003 - David Sankoff