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Stephen Altschul is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his work in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health. Altschul was born in 1957 in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. Altschul is best known for his work in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. He is the author of the widely used BLAST sequence alignment algorithm, which is used to compare biological sequences. He is also the author of the widely used Smith-Waterman algorithm for local sequence alignment. Altschul is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist Award. As of 2021, Stephen Altschul's net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million.

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 28 February, 1957
Birthday 28 February
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Nationality United States

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1994

He is the son of Stephanie Rosemary (née Wagner) and Arthur Altschul, a former partner at Goldman Sachs. In 1994, he married Caroline Kershaw James, the daughter of Caroline James-Pritz of Cincinnati and Harry Keithan James of Dayton, Ohio. The Rev. Luther D. Miller Jr. performed the ceremony at St. David's Episcopal Church in Washington.

1990

Upon graduation, Stephen Frank Altschul worked in the Mathematics Research Branch of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases as an IRTA postdoctoral fellowship. From 1990 to present, he has worked in the NCBI Computational Biology Branch, holding the position of senior investigator.

1957

Stephen Frank Altschul (born February 28, 1957) is an American mathematician who has designed algorithms that are used in the field of bioinformatics (the Karlin-Altschul algorithm and its successors). Altschul is the co-author of the BLAST algorithm used for sequence analysis of proteins and nucleotides.