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American biochemist
William Raymond Pearson is
professor of
biochemistry and
molecular Genetics in the
School of Medicine
[3]
[9] at the
University of Virginia .
[10]
[11]
[12] Pearson is best known for the development of the
FASTA format.
Education
Pearson graduated with a BS in chemistry from the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign . He received his PhD in 1977 from
Caltech .
[5] As a graduate student, he published several papers describing computer programs for analyzing biological data.
[13]
[14]
Career and research
After his PhD, Pearson did a
postdoctoral fellowship at
Johns Hopkins University . In 1983, he joined the faculty of Biochemistry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
[10] Immediately after joining the faculty, he collaborated with
David J. Lipman at the NIH to write the FASTP program,
[7] and later
FASTA .
[8] Pearson's research interests are in
computational biology .
[3] He was named an
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow in 2008, and an
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Fellow in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and
bioinformatics .
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[2]
References
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a
b Anon (2008).
"AAAS fellows" . www.aaas.org .
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a
b Anon (2018).
"ISCB Fellows" . iscb.org . International Society for Computational Biology.
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b
c
William Pearson publications indexed by
Google Scholar
^ William Pearson's
ORCID
0000-0002-0727-3680
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a
b Pearson, William Raymond (1977). Studies on the arrangement of repeated sequences in DNA (PhD thesis).
OCLC
637417263 .
ProQuest
302832904 .
^ Pearson, William R. (1990).
Rapid and sensitive sequence comparison with FASTP and FASTA .
Methods in Enzymology . Vol. 183. pp.
63–98 .
doi :
10.1016/0076-6879(90)83007-V .
ISBN
9780121820848 .
ISSN
0076-6879 .
PMID
2156132 .
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a
b Lipman, D.; Pearson, W. (1985). "Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches".
Science . 227 (4693): 1435–1441.
Bibcode :
1985Sci...227.1435L .
doi :
10.1126/science.2983426 .
ISSN
0036-8075 .
PMID
2983426 .
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a
b 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.
Bibcode :
1988PNAS...85.2444P .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.85.8.2444 .
PMC
280013 .
PMID
3162770 .
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"Biochemistry Research - Pearson" . fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/wrpearson .
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b
"Pearson, William R." med.virginia.edu .
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"Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program - William R. Pearson" . bims.virginia.edu .
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William Pearson publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Garrard, WT; Pearson, WR; Wake, SK; Bonner, J (1974). "Stoichiometry of chromatin proteins".
Biochem Biophys Res Comm . 58 : 50–57.
doi :
10.1016/0006-291x(74)90889-4 .
PMID
4831079 .
^ Pearson, WR; Davidson, EH; Britten, RJ (1977).
"A program for least squares analysis of reassociation and hybridization data" .
Nucleic Acids Res . 4 : 1727–1737.
doi :
10.1093/nar/4.6.1727 .
PMC
342517 .
PMID
896473 .
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