Pavel A. Pevzner
Encyclopedia
Pavel A. Pevzner is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and Director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry
at University of California San Diego. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Bioinformatics
and PLoS Computational Biology
and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore
scientific advisory board.
Pevzner is interested in new approaches to teaching computational molecular biology at both undergraduate and graduate level, having written several books on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology
.
In 2006 Pevzner received an HHMI Research Professor award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
.
He was elected an ACM
Fellow in 2010 for "contribution to algorithms for genome rearrangements, DNA sequencing, and proteomics".
Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry
The Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry is a proteomics center at the University of California, San Diego.CCMS is the author of mass spectrometry software tools such as InsPecT search engine or PepNovo....
at University of California San Diego. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
and PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS Computational Biology is a peer-reviewed computational biology journal established in 2005 and published by the nonprofit Public Library of Science in association with the International Society for Computational Biology. Its Editor in Chief is Philip Bourne...
and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore
Genome Institute of Singapore
The Genome Institute of Singapore is a research institute in Singapore. It was established by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in 2003 and is located on the Biopolis biomedical city...
scientific advisory board.
Pevzner is interested in new approaches to teaching computational molecular biology at both undergraduate and graduate level, having written several books on Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
and Computational Biology
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...
.
In 2006 Pevzner received an HHMI Research Professor award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a United States non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded by the American businessman Howard Hughes in 1953. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United...
.
He was elected an ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
Fellow in 2010 for "contribution to algorithms for genome rearrangements, DNA sequencing, and proteomics".