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Researchers in computational biology, bioinformatics, and systems biology

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Ernest Fraenkel

Ernest Fraenkel is a computational systems biologist and Grover M. Hermann Professor at MIT who studies how molecular networks go wrong in diseases including ALS and cancer.

Eugene V. Koonin

Eugene V. Koonin is a computational evolutionary biologist who leads the Evolutionary Genomics Research Group at the NIH's NCBI in Bethesda, Maryland, known for the COGs database and CRISPR-Cas classification.

Evan Z. Macosko

Evan Z. Macosko is an American physician-scientist and computational biologist at the Broad Institute, known for Drop-seq, the 2015 method that made single-cell RNA sequencing cheap and massively parallel.

Eve Marder

Eve Marder, born 1948, is an American neuroscientist at Brandeis University who studies how small neural circuits produce stable activity, using the stomatogastric ganglion of lobsters and crabs.

Evgeny M. Zdobnov

Evgeny M. Zdobnov is a Swiss-based computational biologist and full professor at the University of Geneva, known for BUSCO, the widely used genome completeness tool, and OrthoDB.

Fabian Theis

Fabian J. Theis, born 1976, is a German computational biologist who directs the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Munich and is known for the single-cell software Scanpy.

Fei Chen

Fei Chen is an associate professor at Harvard and Broad Institute core member working in single-cell and spatial genomics. He is best known for co-inventing Expansion microscopy and developing Slide-seq.

Frank Oliver Glöckner

Frank Oliver Glöckner, born 1969, is a German bioinformatician known for building the SILVA ribosomal RNA database and leading PANGAEA data services at the Alfred Wegener Institute.

Frederic Vester

Frederic Vester (1925–2003) was a German biochemist turned biocybernetician, called the father of networked thinking, who founded a Munich research institute in 1970 and wrote 17 books including bestsellers translated into 11 languages.

Frederick P. Roth

Frederick P. Roth is an American computational biologist, chair of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, known for network biology and causal gene selection.

Gábor Balázsi

Gábor Balázsi is a systems and synthetic biologist who is the Henry Laufer Professor at Stony Brook University, studying how gene expression noise shapes drug resistance and cancer metastasis.

Galit Lahav

Galit Lahav is a systems biologist who is Novartis Professor and Chair of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering that p53 pulses in single living cells.

Garry Nolan

Garry P. Nolan is a Stanford immunologist known for pioneering mass cytometry and CODEX, tools that measure dozens of proteins in single cells and tissue.

Gary D. Stormo

Gary D. Stormo is a computational biologist who introduced the position weight matrix for modeling protein binding sites, and was a longtime genetics professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Gaudenz Danuser

Gaudenz Danuser is a computational biologist who develops computer-vision methods for live-cell imaging of cancer cells; he led bioinformatics at UT Southwestern before joining Roche's Institute of Human Biology in 2025.

Geoffrey J. Barton

Geoffrey J. Barton, known as Geoff Barton, is a British bioinformatician who holds the Chair of Bioinformatics at the University of Dundee and created the Jalview and JPred tools.

George Oster

George Oster, also known as George F. Oster, was an American mathematical biologist and biophysicist at UC Berkeley who modeled cells as mechanochemical machines and the ATP synthase motor.

Gian Gaetano Tartaglia

Gian Gaetano Tartaglia (born 1976) is an Italian computational biologist at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, known for the catRAPID algorithm predicting protein–RNA interactions.

Giulio Superti‐Furga

Giulio Superti-Furga is an Italian molecular and systems biologist, Professor at the Medical University of Vienna and founding Scientific Director of CeMM, known for work on tyrosine kinases and solute carriers.

Gordon K. Smyth

Gordon K. Smyth is an Australian statistical bioinformatician who leads a laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, creating the widely used limma and edgeR packages.

Gray Camp

J. Gray Camp is a Swiss-based developmental and computational biologist at Roche's Institute of Human Biology in Basel, known for single-cell atlases of human organoids.

Gregory Stephanopoulos

Gregory Stephanopoulos, born in Greece in 1950, is a chemical engineer and W. H. Dow Professor at MIT, credited with founding metabolic engineering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Gürol M. Süel

Gürol M. Süel is an American-based molecular biologist who is Professor of Molecular Biology at UC San Diego, known for discovering ion channel-mediated electrical signaling in bacterial biofilms.

Gustavo Deco

Gustavo Deco is an Argentine-born physicist and computational neuroscientist, an ICREA Research Professor and Catedrático at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, known for whole-brain models of resting-state brain activity.

Haiyuan Yu

Haiyuan Yu is a computational biologist and Tisch University Professor at Cornell University known for building large-scale protein interaction networks of yeasts and humans and adding three-dimensional structural detail to them.

Han Liang

Han Liang is a computational biologist and cancer researcher who is Interim Chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Hans‐Werner Mewes

Hans-Werner Mewes is a German bioinformatician who built the MIPS genome databases, led bioinformatics for the European yeast genome project, and became TUM professor emeritus in 2017.

Heng Li

Heng Li (李恒) is a bioinformatician and associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber, known for the BWA aligner, SAM format, minimap2, and hifiasm.

Henning Hermjakob

Henning Hermjakob is a bioinformatician who leads Molecular Systems at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton, heading IntAct, Reactome, and BioModels and co-founding the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative.

Hiroaki Kitano

Hiroaki Kitano is a Japanese researcher who helped pioneer systems biology, is President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, and led the AI agent that beat champion Gran Turismo drivers.