Owen White Explained

Owen White
Workplaces:University of Maryland, Baltimore
Thesis Year:1992
Doctoral Advisors:Christopher A. Fields
Awards:Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2015)
Employer:University of Maryland School of Medicine

Owen R. White[1] is a bioinformatician and director of the Institute For Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States. He is known for his work on the bioinformatics tools GLIMMER and MUMmer.

Education

White studied biotechnology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning a bachelor of science degree in 1985. He later studied with Christopher A. Fields at New Mexico State University, earning his PhD in molecular biology in 1992.[2] [3]

Research

From 1992 to 1994, White was a postdoctoral fellow in the Genome Informatics department at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland. This was followed by a period as a collaborative investigator in the Department of Bioinformatics at TIGR. While at TIGR, White was one of the developers of the GLIMMER (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov ModelER) gene discovery algorithm, alongside Steven Salzberg and colleagues.[4] [5] [6] Salzberg and White were also involved in the development of the MUMmer software for sequence alignment.[7]

White became director of bioinformatics at TIGR in 2000. He has also been involved in the National Institutes of Health Human Microbiome Project, where he was principal investigator of the Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the first phase of the project.[8] [9]

Awards and honors

In 2015, White was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award in Bioinformatics for his promotion of free and open-access materials and methods in the life sciences.[10]

Notes and References

  1. News: UM School of Medicine's Institute for Genome Sciences Awarded $17.5 Million Grant for Infectious Disease Research . 14 June 2023 . . April 4, 2019.
  2. Web site: University of Maryland School of Medicine. news.medschool.umaryland.edu. 15 September 2017.
  3. Web site: Recent Graduates Molecular Biology. molb.research.nmsu.edu. 15 September 2017.
  4. Salzberg. SL. Delcher. AL. Kasif. S. White. O. Microbial gene identification using interpolated Markov models.. Nucleic Acids Research. 15 January 1998. 26. 2. 544–8. 9421513. 10.1093/nar/26.2.544. 147303.
  5. Delcher. AL. Harmon. D. Kasif. S. White. O. Salzberg. SL. Improved microbial gene identification with GLIMMER.. Nucleic Acids Research. 1 December 1999. 27. 23. 4636–41. 10556321. 10.1093/nar/27.23.4636. 148753.
  6. Book: Pevsner. Jonathan. Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. 2015. John Wiley & Sons. 9781118581766. 821. 3rd.
  7. Delcher. A. L.. Kasif. S.. Fleischmann. R. D.. Peterson. J.. White. O.. Salzberg. S. L.. Alignment of whole genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 1 January 1999. 27. 11. 2369–2376. 10.1093/nar/27.11.2369. 10325427. 148804.
  8. Web site: White, Owen University of Maryland School of Medicine. www.medschool.umaryland.edu. 15 September 2017. en.
  9. Web site: Benjamin Franklin Award - Bioinformatics.org. www.bioinformatics.org. 15 September 2017. en.
  10. Web site: Owen White Receives 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award at Bio-IT World Conference. www.bio-itworld.com. 15 September 2017. en-us.