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Temple F. Smith
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| Born | March 7, 1939 Auburn, New York |
| Known for | Smith-Waterman algorithm |
| Notable awards | ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award[1] |
Temple F. Smith is a university professor in biomedical engineering[2][3] who helped to develop the Smith-Waterman algorithm developed 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 currently works as director of the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center at Boston University.
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He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1963 from the Physics Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., and thereafter he graduated with a PhD. in 1969 in the Physics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder. Consecutively, he did his Postdoctoral research (March 1969 - August 1971) in the Department of Biophysics and Genetics, University of Colorado Medical School, Boulder.
His research is centered on the application of various computer science and mathematical methods to the discovery of the syntactic and semantic patterns in nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. [4]