Dr. David Sankoff
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Ottawa
Election Year
1995
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords
Genomics, evolution, bioinformatics, algorithms
David Sankoff is a pioneer in the area of biomathematics that studies the genetic sequences of molecular biology. His most important work has been in sequence analysis and molecular evolution. One would cite, in particular, his very influential studies of multiple sequence alignment, RNA structure and evolutionary tree construction, and current study of genome rearrangement and flowering plant genomics. He has made significant contributions to the mathematical foundations of linguistics.