Nick Goldman
Nicholas Goldman is a group leader, joint head of research, and senior scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), located on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England. He began working at the EBI in 2002, and became a senior scientist there in 2009.[1] His group's research focuses on evolutionary genetics and genomics.[2] He and his EBI colleague Ewan Birney, along with other researchers, developed a tool for DNA digital data storage, on which they successfully encoded all the sonnets of William Shakespeare, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, a PDF of the 1953 paper "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", and a photo of their own institute. They described their results in a 2013 paper in Nature.[3][4][5][6]
Nick Goldman | |
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Born | Nicholas Goldman |
Nationality | England |
Education | University of Cambridge |
Known for | DNA digital data storage Evolutionary genetics |
Awards | Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow (1995–2006) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Bioinformatics |
Institutions | European Bioinformatics Institute |
Thesis | Statistical estimation of evolutionary trees (1991) |
References
- "Nick Goldman". European Bioinformatics Institute. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- "Goldman group". European Bioinformatics Institute. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- Goldman, Nick; Bertone, Paul; Chen, Siyuan; Dessimoz, Christophe; LeProust, Emily M.; Sipos, Botond; Birney, Ewan (February 2013). "Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA". Nature. 494 (7435): 77–80. doi:10.1038/nature11875. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 3672958. PMID 23354052.
- Yong, Ed (2013-01-23). "Synthetic double-helix faithfully stores Shakespeare's sonnets". Nature News. doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12279. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- Yong, Ed (2017-03-02). "This Speck of DNA Contains a Movie, a Computer Virus, and an Amazon Gift Card". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- Markoff, John (2013-01-28). "Using DNA to Store Digital Information". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-08.