Walter Goad

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Walter Goad is one of the founders of GenBank when he was in Los Alamos. He was born in 1925 and died in 2000. From 1970 to 1971, he worked with Francis Crick at the MRC LMB of Cambridge.

In 1979 he came up with the idea of creating a "DNA database", a database containing all (at that time) known DNA genomes.

References

Obituary at the Los Alamos Labs
New York Times 1983
The Goad Papers at the American Philosophical Society
Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis By David W. Mount ISBN 0-87969-712-1

External links

Walter Goad Papers at the American Philosophical Society

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