14 Facts About Steven Salzberg

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Steven Salzberg did his undergraduate studies at Yale University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1980.

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Steven Salzberg then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science as well as the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

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In 2011, Steven Salzberg returned to Johns Hopkins University as a Professor in the Department of Medicine.

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In 2013, Steven Salzberg won the Benjamin Franklin award in bioinformatics.

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Steven Salzberg holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Steven Salzberg has been a prominent scientist in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology since the 1990s.

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Steven Salzberg has made many contributions to gene finding algorithms, notably the GLIMMER program for bacterial gene finding as well as several related programs for finding genes in animals, plants, and other organisms.

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Steven Salzberg has been a leader in genome assembly research and is one of the initiators of the open source AMOS project.

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Steven Salzberg was a participant in the human genome project as well as many other genome projects, including the malaria genome and the genome of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Steven Salzberg writes a widely read column at Forbes magazine on science, medicine, and pseudoscience.

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Steven Salzberg was a charter member of the Cambridge Working Group in 2014, which was created to express alarm in the scientific community over the creation of highly transmissible and contagious viruses and the likelihood of an accidental lab release.

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Steven Salzberg has more than 290,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 156.

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In 2014,2015,2016, and 2017, Steven Salzberg was selected for inclusion in HighlyCited.

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Steven Salzberg was chosen for this list when it was first created in 2001.