Webb Miller
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| Nationality | United States |
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| Fields | Bioinformatics |
| Institutions | The Pennsylvania State University |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Known for | BLAST |
Webb Miller is an American professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1969. He joined Penn State in September 1985. Prior to that, he had held a position as permanent staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and served on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Arizona.
Webb Miller has been developing algorithms and software for analyzing DNA sequences and related types of data from molecular genetics. He is one of the authors of BLAST.
[edit] Papers
- Optimal Alignments in Linear Space, Webb Miller, and Eugene W. Myers, In CABIOS, vol. 4, pp. 11-17, 1988.
- Approximate Matching of Regular Expressions, Eugene W. Myers, and Webb Miller, In Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, vol.51, pp. 5-37, 1989.
- Altschul, S F; Madden, T L; Schäffer, A A & Zhang, J (1997), “Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs.”, Nucleic Acids Res. 25 (17): 3389-402, 1997 Sep 1, PMID:9254694, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9254694>
- Boguski, M S; Hardison, R C; Schwartz, S & Miller, W (1992), “Analysis of conserved domains and sequence motifs in cellular regulatory proteins and locus control regions using new software tools for multiple alignment and visualization.”, New Biol. 4 (3): 247-60, 1992 Mar, PMID:1581291, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1581291>
- Altschul, S F; Gish, W; Miller, W & Myers, E W (1990), “Basic local alignment search tool.”, J. Mol. Biol. 215 (3): 403-10, 1990 Oct 5, PMID:2231712, doi:10.1006/jmbi.1990.9999, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2231712>
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