Jim Kent is an American research scientist and computer programmer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a major contributor to genome database projects. While a graduate student in biology there, he wrote the program that allowed the publicly funded Human Genome Project to assemble and publish the human genome database before the commercial effort by the company Celera Genomics. Wikipedia
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...email Jim Jim Kent's Web Page I'm a research scientist at UCSC . I work primarily on web tools to help understand the human genome. Before becoming a bioinformatician ... www.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/
