Eugene Myers

Eugene Wimberly "Gene" Myers Jr. is an American computer scientist and bioinformatician, born on December 31, 1953, who is best known for contributing to the early development of the BLAST sequence analysis tool at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. His work belongs to the algorithmic side of bioinformatics, where methods for comparing and searching long strings of DNA and protein sequence turned a biological question into a problem of computation. His infobox lists computer science and bioinformatics as his fields, and names the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, the Janelia Farm Research Campus and the University of Arizona among his workplaces. He earned his doctorate at the California Institute of Technology under Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, with a 1982 thesis on depth-first search and connectivity testing, and received the Paris Kanellakis Award in 2001 and the ISCB Senior Scientist Award in 2014.