William Pearson (scientist)

William Pearson
Born William Raymond Pearson
Education
Known for FASTA[3][4][5]
Awards ISCB Fellow (2018)[6]
Scientific career
Fields Computational biology[7]
Institutions University of Virginia
Thesis Studies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA (1977)
Website www.people.virginia.edu/~wrp

William Raymond Pearson is professor of biochemistry and molecular Genetics in the School of Medicine[7][8] at the University of Virginia.[9][10][11] Pearson is best known for the development of the FASTA format.

Pearson was elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.[6]

Pearson graduated with a BS in chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in 1977 from CalTech. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.[8]

References

  1. ↑ William Pearson's Entry at ORCID
  2. ↑ Pearson, William Raymond (1977). Studies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA. proquest.com (PhD thesis). OCLC 637417263.
  3. ↑ Pearson, William R. (1990). "Rapid and sensitive sequence comparison with FASTP and FASTA". Methods in Enzymology. 183: 63–98. doi:10.1016/0076-6879(90)83007-V. ISSN 0076-6879. PMID 2156132.
  4. ↑ Lipman, D.; Pearson, W. (1985). "Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches". Science. 227 (4693): 1435–1441. doi:10.1126/science.2983426. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 2983426.
  5. ↑ Pearson, W. R.; Lipman, D. J. (1988). "Improved tools for biological sequence comparison". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 85 (8): 2444–2448. doi:10.1073/pnas.85.8.2444. PMC 280013. PMID 3162770.
  6. 1 2 Anon (2018). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
  7. 1 2 William Pearson publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  8. 1 2 "Biochemistry Research - Pearson". www.people.virginia.edu.
  9. ↑ "Pearson, William R." med.virginia.edu.
  10. ↑ "Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program - William R. Pearson". bims.virginia.edu.
  11. ↑ 56700473100 William Pearson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)


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