ISCB Honors Michael S. Waterman and Mathieu Blanchette

Merry Maisel

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020105

Abstract

Each year, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) takes nominations for its two major awards. An awards committee, composed of a group of current and past directors of the Society along with previous recipients, evaluates the nominations and selects the winners. In 2006, the awards committee honors two outstanding scientists.

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E ach year, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) takes nominations for its two major awards
‘‘Professor Waterman has contributed work of prime importance in half a dozen fields of computational biology,’’ said Thomas Lengauer, professor of computational biology and applied algorithmics at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik and chair of the ISCB Awards Committee. ‘‘So much of our work is based on methods for finding sequence homology that, if we weren’t constantly citing it, it would amaze us that the methodology was first devised only 25 years ago by Mike Waterman and Temple Smith
‘‘Computational biologists today are all beneficiaries of his work,’’ Lengauer said, ‘‘He has trained more than a handful of prominent computational genomicists, served on virtually all the panels and committees that guide government in evaluating grants and fellowships, and has generally guided the development of the discipline. He has been an active member of ISCB since its founding, and he worked with Pavel Pevzner and Sorin Istrail to start RECOMB, the Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, which held its tenth meeting in April.’’

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Introduction

E ach year, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) takes nominations for its two major awards. The founding editor of the Journal of Computational Biology and one of the originators of the discipline, Professor Michael S. Waterman, has been named winner of the annual Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award.

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