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Steven Salzberg

American biologist and computer scientist
Person human Q7248791

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[21]
Date of birth
1960
Country of citizenship
United States[6]
Occupation
biologist, professor, computer scientist, bioinformatician
Employer
Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University[8]
Field of work
influenza[7]
Educated at
Yale University, Harvard University, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences[9][10][11]
Award received
Benjamin Franklin Award, ISCB Fellow, Robert B. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ACM Fellow, ISCB Senior Scientist Award[14][15][16][17][18][19]
Notable work
GLIMMER[13]
Doctoral advisor
William Aaron Woods[12]
Doctoral student
Cole Trapnell, Benjamin Langmead, Michael C. Schatz, John W. Sheppard, Mihaela Pertea, Adam Phillippy, Samuel Angiuoli, David Kelley, Jonathan Allen, Sreerama Murthy[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]
Family name
Salzberg[32]
Given name
Steven[33]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[34]
Member of
Association for Computing Machinery[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en Steven Salzberg en Steven Lloyd Salzberg en Steven L Salzberg en Steven L. Salzberg de Steven Lloyd Salzberg zh 史蒂芬·扎尔茨贝格 zh 斯蒂文·薩爾茲堡 zh 薩爾茲堡 zh-hant 史蒂芬·扎爾茨貝格
🔖 Identifiers · 28
ISNI
0000000109355156
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8859-7432
VIAF cluster ID
111273885
Library of Congress authority ID
n90616562
GND ID
135643783
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Steven Salzberg.jpg ↗
Academic Tree ID
750134
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13495094h
CONOR.SI ID
123101283
DBLP author ID
s/StevenSalzberg
DDB person (GND) ID
135643783
Freebase ID
/m/0gh_hz
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Google Scholar author ID
sUVeH-4AAAAJ
IdRef ID
050362569
JudaicaLink person (GND) ID
135643783
MR Author ID
360185
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
106737
NUKAT ID
n01050174
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007429202205171
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
075049295
Publons author ID
2779709
ResearcherID
F-6162-2011
SBN author ID
TSAV016148
Scopus author ID
7005045166
Semantic Scholar author ID
1744109
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJdctDTj8dRGh8xKvRhmBP
Yale LUX ID
person/274f2e51-6c6a-4894-9095-9b2967d37809
ZbMATH author ID
salzberg.steven-l

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🔗 Connections
Author of 9
16GT: a fast and sensitive variant caller using a 16-genotype probabilistic model, Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype, HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements, Hybrid assembly of the large and highly repetitive genome of <i>Aegilops tauschii</i> , a progenitor of bread wheat, with the MaSuRCA mega-reads algorithm, Investigating open reading frames in known and novel transcripts using ORFanage, Liftoff: accurate mapping of gene annotations, PhyloCSF++: a fast and user-friendly implementation of PhyloCSF with annotation tools, PSAURON: a tool for assessing protein annotation across a broad range of species +1 more
← Authored by 9
16GT: a fast and sensitive variant caller using a 16-genotype probabilistic model, Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype, HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements, Hybrid assembly of the large and highly repetitive genome of <i>Aegilops tauschii</i> , a progenitor of bread wheat, with the MaSuRCA mega-reads algorithm, Investigating open reading frames in known and novel transcripts using ORFanage, Liftoff: accurate mapping of gene annotations, PhyloCSF++: a fast and user-friendly implementation of PhyloCSF with annotation tools, PSAURON: a tool for assessing protein annotation across a broad range of species +1 more
Award received 4
ACM Fellow, Benjamin Franklin Award, ISCB Senior Scientist Award, Robert B. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking
Occupation 4
professor, biologist, computer scientist, bioinformatician
Affiliated with 2
Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Educated at 2
Harvard University, Yale University
Employer 2
Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Doctoral advisor 1
William Aaron Woods
Doctoral advisors 1
William Aaron Woods
Doctoral student 1
Michael C. Schatz
Doctoral students 1
Michael C. Schatz
Field of work 1
influenza
Given name 1
Steven
Instance of 1
human
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Mathematics
Member of 1
Association for Computing Machinery
Notable work 1
GLIMMER
Sex or gender 1
male
← Maintained by 1
MUMmer
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Summary

Steven Salzberg was born in 1960[1]. He has worked as a biologist[2], professor[3], computer scientist[4], and bioinformatician[5].

Why It Matters

His notable doctoral advisees include Michael C. Schatz[35], a computer scientist[36], awarded the Time 100[37].

FAQs

What did Steven Salzberg do for work?

Steven Salzberg worked as a biologist[2], professor[3], computer scientist[4], and bioinformatician[5].

Where did Steven Salzberg go to school?

Steven Salzberg was educated at Yale University[9], Harvard University[10], and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences[11].

What awards did Steven Salzberg receive?

Honors received include Benjamin Franklin Award[14], ISCB Fellow[15], Robert B. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking[16], and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[17].

Related Entities

computer scientist Johns Hopkins University Michael C. Schatz United States William Aaron Woods

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  9. [4] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  11. [8] ↑ . bme.jhu.edu. bme.jhu.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  20. [23] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
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  22. [25] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  23. [26] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
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  27. [30] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  28. [31] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  29. [20] ↑ . acm.org. Retrieved . acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [1] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  1. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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