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Steven Lloyd Salzberg (born 1960) is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also Director of the Center for Computational Biology.
After earning his Ph.D., Salzberg joined Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and was promoted to associate professor in 1997. From 1998 to 2005, he was the head of the Bioinformatics department at The Institute for Genomic Research, one of the world's largest genome sequencing centers. Salzberg then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science as well as the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. In 2011, Salzberg returned to Johns Hopkins University as a professor in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and in the Department of Medicine. ccb.jhu.edu Brief biosketch Editorial on evolution and the flu, Philadelphia Inquirer
In 2013, Salzberg won the Benjamin Franklin award in bioinformatics.
In 2014, he was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University for his accomplishments as an interdisciplinary researcher and excellence in teaching the next generation of scholars. The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships were established in 2013 by a gift from Michael Bloomberg. Salzberg holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Salzberg together with David Lipman and Lone Simonsen started the Influenza Genome Sequencing Project in 2003, a project to sequence and make available the genomes of thousands of influenza virus isolates.
Soon after the advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in the mid-2000s, Salzberg's research lab and his collaborators developed a suite of highly efficient, accurate programs for alignment of NGS sequences to large genomes and for assembly of sequences from RNA-Seq experiments. These include the "Tuxedo" suite, comprising the Bowtie, TopHat, and Cufflinks programs, which have been cited tens of thousands of times in the years since their publication.
Salzberg has also been a vocal advocate against pseudoscience and has authored editorials and appeared in print media on this topic. From 2010-2024, he wrote a column at Forbes magazine Salzberg's column at Forbes on science, medicine, and pseudoscience, where he published over 300 articles that collectively received tens of millions of views. His work at Forbes won the 2012 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking.
Salzberg was a charter member of the Cambridge Working Group in 2014, which was created to express alarm in the scientific community over the creation of highly transmissible and contagious viruses (also called Gain-of-function research) and the likelihood of an accidental lab release.Baker, Nicholson. (4 January 2021). "The Lab-Leak Hypothesis For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?". New York magazine Retrieved 18 January 2021.
which includes all of his Forbes columns and others, nearly 500 articles in all.
Publications
Salzberg has authored or co-authored over 300 scientific publications. He has more than 350,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 167. In 2014 Salzberg was selected for inclusion in HighlyCited.com, a ranking compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information of scientists who are among the top 1% most cited for their subject field during the previous ten years. He was also chosen for this list when it was first created in 2001. This list of highly cited researchers continues under Clarivate, and Salzberg was included in the list every year since 2014, through at least 2024.
Highly cited articles (more than 10,000 citations)
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