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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • February 24, 2015
    We're excited to announce that Prof. Owen White of the University of Maryland School of Medicine has been selected by our members to be the 2015 laureate of the Franklin Award!

    In the words of his nominators, "Owen has been a leading proponent of open access software since the late 1990's, when he worked as the Director of Bioinformatics at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). At TIGR and in the years since then, he has consistently advocated for the free release of software and of genome sequence data. He led the development of the Comprehensive Microbial Resource (first published in 2001), one of the first and at the time one of the largest open databases of bacterial genome annotation. As a PI of the NIH Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Data Analysis and Coordination Center, Owen has advocated that all data be open access. In recent years his group has developed several influential open-source software systems for genome annotation, including Manatee, Ergatis and the IGS Prokaryotic Annotation Engine."

    The ceremony for the presentation of the award will be held on April 22nd at the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston (http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com). It involves a short introduction, the presentation of the certificate, and the laureate seminar. More information on the award can be found at http://www.bioinformatics.org/franklin/.

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