I Ethics, Law, and Policy Biosketch

Sean Eddy, Ph.D.

Dr. Eddy is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and the Alvin Goldfarb Distinguished Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, where he is also affiliated with the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center. His research interests include the evolutionary history of catalytic and structural RNAs, development of algorithms for RNA structure analysis, and other aspects of computational genome sequence analysis. He is the author of the HMMER software for biological sequence analysis, a coauthor of the Pfam database of protein domains, and a coauthor of the book Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He was a member of NHGRI’s National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Community Standards for Publication-Related Data and Materials. Dr. Eddy has coauthored 2 books and published 70 articles.