Ben Langmead
{{Short description|American computational biologist}}
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| fields = Computational biology
| workplaces = Johns Hopkins University
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| thesis_title = Algorithms and High Performance Computing Approaches for Sequencing-Based Comparative Genomics
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| thesis_year = 2012
| doctoral_advisor = Steven Salzberg
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| known_for = Bowtie sequence aligner
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| awards = Benjamin Franklin Award {{small|(2016)}}
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Ben Langmead is a computational biologist and associate professor in the Computational Biology & Medicine Group at Johns Hopkins University.{{cite web|title=Benjamin Langmead - Department of Computer Science|url=https://www.cs.jhu.edu/faculty/ben-langmead/|website=Department of Computer Science|access-date=23 March 2017}}{{GoogleScholar|2JMaTKsAAAAJ}}
Education
Langmead gained his Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science from Columbia College, Columbia University in 2003. He gained both his Master of Science and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland, supervised by Steven Salzberg, in 2009 and 2012, respectively.{{cite web|title=Langmead CV|url=http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~blangmea/cv/current.pdf|access-date=24 March 2017}}
Career
Langmead is known for developing the Bowtie sequence alignment algorithm,{{cite journal|last1=Langmead|first1=Ben|last2=Trapnell|first2=Cole|last3=Pop|first3=Mihai|last4=Salzberg|first4=Steven L|title=Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome|journal=Genome Biology|date=2009|volume=10|issue=3|pages=R25|doi=10.1186/gb-2009-10-3-r25|pmc=2690996|pmid=19261174 |doi-access=free }} which implements the Burrows–Wheeler transform in order to improve the scalability of sequence alignment. {{As of|2022}}, the original Genome Biology paper which describes the Bowtie software package has been cited over 20,000 times.
Langmead became an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University in July 2012.
Awards
Langmead was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award in 2016 for his promotion of free and open access materials for use in life sciences.{{cite web|title=Benjamin Franklin Award - Bioinformatics.org|url=http://www.bioinformatics.org/franklin/|website=www.bioinformatics.org|access-date=23 March 2017|language=en}}
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Category:American bioinformaticians
Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty
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