Ben Langmead

Ben Langmead is a computational biologist and associate professor in the Computational Biology & Medicine Group at Johns Hopkins University.[1][2]

Ben Langmead
Born
Benjamin Thomas Langmead
Alma mater
  • Columbia College, Columbia University
  • University of Maryland
Known forBowtie sequence aligner
AwardsBenjamin Franklin Award (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational biology
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
ThesisAlgorithms and High Performance Computing Approaches for Sequencing-Based Comparative Genomics (2012)
Doctoral advisorSteven Salzberg
Websitewww.cs.jhu.edu/faculty/ben-langmead/

Education

Langmead gained his Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science from Columbia College, Columbia University in 2003. He gained both his Master of Science and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland, supervised by Steven Salzberg, in 2009 and 2012, respectively.[3]

Career

Langmead is known for developing the Bowtie sequence alignment algorithm,[4] which implements the Burrows–Wheeler transform in order to improve the scalability of sequence alignment. As of 2017, the original Genome Biology paper which describes the Bowtie software package has been cited over 9,000 times.

Langmead became an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University in July 2012.[3]

Awards

Langmead was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award in 2016 for his promotion of free and open access materials for use in life sciences.[5]

gollark: Also, it's really fast, 400ms vs a few seconds for the Haskell program.
gollark: The images are big but I could theoretically drop the color space a bit to shrink them.
gollark: And because of the lack of floats I had to do some of the operations kind of hackily.
gollark: This isn't strictly an exact port, because the Haskell version uses floats and for efficiency this doesn't, but who cares.
gollark: It works! Although it's a bit dim for some reason.

References
  1. "Benjamin Langmead - Department of Computer Science". Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  2. Ben Langmead publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. "Langmead CV" (PDF). Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  4. Langmead, Ben; Trapnell, Cole; Pop, Mihai; Salzberg, Steven L (2009). "Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome". Genome Biology. 10 (3): R25. doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-3-r25. PMC 2690996. PMID 19261174.
  5. "Benjamin Franklin Award - Bioinformatics.org". www.bioinformatics.org. Retrieved 23 March 2017.

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