Steven E. Brenner is a professor at the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California Berkeley, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

, and San Francisco
Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Brenner gained his A.B. in 1992 from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and Ph.D.

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 in 1997 from the University of Cambridge. He was one of the creators of the Structural Classification of Proteins

Structural Classification of Proteins

The Structural Classification of Proteins database is a largely manual classification of protein structural domains based on similarities of their structures and amino acid sequences. A motivation for this classification is to determine the evolutionary relationship between proteins...

 (SCOP) database while working at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

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 (LMB) in Cambridge, UK.

In 2010 he was awarded the Overton Prize

Overton Prize

The Overton Prize is an annual prize is awarded for outstanding accomplishment to a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career who has already made a significant contribution to the field of computational biology either through research, education, service, or a combination of the three...

 from the International Society for Computational Biology.