Dr. Ewan Birney: As the Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and a significant contributor to the Human Genome Project, Birney’s work has been foundational in the bioinformatics field.
Dr. Pavel Pevzner: A distinguished professor at UC San Diego, Pevzner has made pivotal contributions to algorithms in computational genomics. His MOOC on bioinformatics is highly regarded in academic circles.
Dr. Lincoln Stein: Directing the Informatics and Biocomputing platform at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Stein’s work focuses on tools and databases for genomics, notably the Reactome pathway database.
Dr. Janet Thornton: A former Director of EBI, Thornton’s contributions to understanding protein structure and function using computational methods have been invaluable.
Dr. Søren Brunak: A professor at the Technical University of Denmark, Brunak’s research intersects biology and health informatics, exploring disease trajectories and patient stratification.
Dr. Manolis Kellis: As a professor at MIT, Kellis focuses on computational biology, integrating diverse data types to model and interpret mammalian genomes.
Dr. Jill Mesirov: Associate Vice Chancellor at UC San Diego Health, Mesirov’s work emphasizes the algorithmic and machine learning methods in genomics, leading to tools like GenePattern.
Dr. Ben Langmead: An associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, Langmead’s tools, like Bowtie and Centrifuge, are vital for genomics research. He emphasizes scalable and efficient algorithms.
Dr. Aviv Regev: As an executive vice president at Genentech, Regev’s work in single-cell genomics, computational models, and gene regulation has been transformative for the bioinformatics community.
Dr. Sean Eddy: A researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Eddy’s work on biological sequence analysis has led to tools like HMMER, which are fundamental in protein domain identification.
