Gene Myers

Gene Myers is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on algorithms and computational biology. Before coming to Berkeley in 2003, Myers worked at Celera Genomics, where he was involved in the sequencing of the human genome, as well as the genomes of Drosophila and mouse. In particular, Myers advocated the use of the whole genome shotgun sequencing technique.

Myers was one of the original developers of the BLAST algorithm, which is very likely the most widely used software tool in the field of bioinformatics. Along with Udi Manber, Myers invented the suffix array data structure.