Temple F. Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetTemple F. Smith
American academic
Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1939
Place of Birth: Auburn, New York, United States
Profession: bioinformatician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Temple F. Smith
- Temple Ferris Smith (born March 7, 1939) is an emeritus professor in biomedical engineering who helped to develop the Smith-Waterman algorithm 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 was director of the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center at Boston University for twenty years and is now professor emeritus.
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