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To add to this: He is the co-inventor of "Burrows–Wheeler transform", which is a key component in any modern genomics analysis pipeline, used in bzip2 (the "b"
by anuragbiyani 12y ago
To add to this:
He is the co-inventor of "Burrows–Wheeler transform", which is a key component in any modern genomics analysis pipeline, used in bzip2 (the "b" stands for BWT), etc.
- jamessb 12y agoThe transform was produced by a different David Wheeler, who was a computer scientist at Cambridge and died in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_%28British_computer_scientist%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_%28British_compu...
- anuragbiyani 12y agoApologies for the confusion, and thanks for the correction @jamessb. I mixed the author of the post with David J Wheeler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_(British_computer_scientist) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_(British_computer..., when the author is clearly David A. Wheeler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wheeler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wheeler).