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Phone: (571) 209-4153 Fax: (571) 209-4083 Address: Janelia Farms Research Campus 19700 Helix Dr. Ashburn, VA 20147-2408
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Brief Bio
Gene Myers is one of the seven initial investigators to become a group leader at the new Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Gene comes to the JFRC from UC Berkeley where he was on the faculty of Computer Science from 2003 to 2005. He was formerly Vice President of Informatics Research at Celera Genomics for four years where he and his team determined the sequences of the Drosophila, Human, and Mouse genomes using the whole genome shotgun technique that he advocated in 1996. Prior to that Gene was on the faculty of the University of Arizona for 17 years and he received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Colorado in 1981. His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms for problems in computational molecular biology, discrete pattern matching and computer graphics, with a focus on building models of the cell and cellular systems from imaging data. He is best known for the development of BLAST -- the most widely used tool in bioinformatics, and for the paired-end whole genome shotgun sequencing protocol and the assembler he developed at Celera that delivered the fly, human, and mouse genomes in a three year period. He has also written many seminal papers on the theory of sequence comparison. He was awarded the IEEE 3rd Millenium Acheivement Award in 2000, the Newcomb Cleveland Best Paper in Science award in 2001, and the ACM Kanellakis Prize in 2002. He was voted the most influential in bioinformatics in 2001 by Genome Technology Magazine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. In 2004 he won the International Max-Planck Research Prize and in 2005 was selected as one of two distinguished alumni (with David Haussler) at his alma-mater, the University of Colorado. In 2006 Gene was inducted into Leopoldina, the German Academy of Science and awarded an honarary doctorate at ETH, Zurich.Recent Papers ...
H. Peng, F. Long, and E. Myers,
``VANO: A Volume-Object Image Annotation System,''
Bioinformatics, to appear.
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F. Long, H. Peng, X. Liu, S. Kim, and E. Myers,
``Automatic recognition of cells (ARC) for 3D images of C. elegans,''
Proc. 2008 Conf. on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB)
(Singapore, 2008), 128-139. Also published as Springer-Verlag LNCS #4955.
- H. Peng, F. Long, X. Liu, S. Kim, and E. Myers, ``Straightening C. elegans Images,'' Bioinformatics 24, 2 (2007), 234-242.
- H. Peng, F. Long, J. Zhou, G. Leung, M. Eisen, and E. Myers, ``Automatic Image Analysis For Gene Expression Patterns of Fly Embryos,'' BMC Cell Biology 8, Supp. 1 (2007) 8, Supp. 1 (2007).
- M.M. Mwangi, S.W. Wu, Z. Yanjiao, K. Sieradzki, H. de Lencastre, P. Richardson, D. Bruce, E. Rubin, E. Myers, E.D. Siggia, A. Tomasz, ``Tracking in vivo Evolution of Multidrug Resistance in S. aureus by Whole Genome Sequencing,'' PNAS 104, 22 (2007), 9451-56.
- F. Long, H. Peng, and E. Myers, ``Automatic Segmentation of Nuclei in 3D Microscopy Images of C. Elegans,'' Proc. IEEE Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (Washington, DC, 2007), 536-539.
- H. Peng, F. Long, X. Liu, S. Kim, and E. Myers, ``Staightening Worm Images,'' Proc. IEEE Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (Washington, DC, 2007), 292-295.
- C.D. Smith, R.C. Edgar, M.D. Yandell, D.R. Smith, S.E. Celniker, E.W. Myers, G.H. Karpen, ``Improved Repeat Identification and Masking in Dipterans,'' Gene 389 (2007), 1-9.
- H. Peng, F. Long, M. Eisien, and E. Myers, ``Clustering Gene Expression Patterns of Fly Embryos,'' Proc. IEEE Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (Washington, DC, 2006), 1144-1147.
- T. Lin, E.W. Myers, and E.P. Xing, ``Interpreting Anonymous DNA Samples From Mass Disasters -- Probabilistic Forensic Inference Using Genetic Markers,'' Conf. on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (Forta Leza, Brazil, 2006), 298-306. Also published as Bioinformatics 22(14).
Personal ...
- Personal Photo Album
- As a hobby around 1990, I did considerable work on the production of high-quality, real-time display of molecular images and include below a few sample visualization produced with my software just for the heck of it.
Sample Molecule Views |
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Ball and Stick |
Space Filling |
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Solid Ribbon |
Wire Ribbon |