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Temple F. Smith

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Temple F. Smith
Biology
#408
World Rank
#732
Historical Rank
#244
USA Rank
Computational Biology
#58
World Rank
#58
Historical Rank
#18
USA Rank
Molecular Biology
#347
World Rank
#354
Historical Rank
#127
USA Rank
Biochemistry
#1996
World Rank
#2137
Historical Rank
#299
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Temple Ferris Smith is an emeritus professor in biomedical engineering who helped to develop the Smith-Waterman algorithm with Michael Waterman in 1981. The Smith-Waterman algorithm serves as the basis for multi sequence comparisons, identifying the segment with the maximum local sequence similarity, see sequence alignment. This algorithm is used for identifying similar DNA, RNA and protein segments. He was director of the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center at Boston University for twenty years and is now professor emeritus.

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