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Stephen Frank Altschul (born February 28, 1957) is an American mathematician who has designed algorithms that are widely used in the field of bioinformatics (the Karlin-Altschul algorithm^[1]). Most notably, Altschul is the co-author of the BLAST algorithm used for sequence analysis of proteins and nucleotides. He graduated summa cum laude^[2] from Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics and has a Ph.D. in the same field of research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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^ Karlin, Samuel and Stephen F. Altschul (1990). Methods for assessing the statistical significance of molecular sequence features by using general scoring schemes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:2264-68. PMID: 2315319. URL: http://www.pnas.org/content/87/6/2264.full.pdf+html url: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=2315319
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