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Owen White (bioinformatician)

Owen White (bioinformatician) is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Owen White (bioinformatician) rather than just read about it. In short: Owen R. White is a bioinformatician and director of the Institute For Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States.

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Reference excerpt

Owen R. White is a bioinformatician and director of the Institute For Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States. He is known for his work on the bioinformatics tools GLIMMER and MUMmer.

Education White studied biotechnology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning a bachelor of science degree in 1985. He later studied with Christopher A. Fields at New Mexico State University, earning his PhD in molecular biology in 1992.

Research From 1992 to 1994, White was a postdoctoral fellow in the Genome Informatics department at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland. This was followed by a period as a collaborative investigator in the Department of Bioinformatics at TIGR. While at TIGR, White was one of the developers of the GLIMMER (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov ModelER) gene discovery algorithm, alongside Steven Salzberg and colleagues. Salzberg and White were also involved in the development of the MUMmer software for sequence alignment. White became Director of bioinformatics at TIGR in 2000. He has also been involved in the National Institutes of Health Human Microbiome Project, where he was principal investigator of the Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the first phase of the project. White is the primary investigator of the Neuroscience Multi-Omic Archive (NeMO Archive), the primary repository of genomic data from the BRAIN Initiative. In 2025, he confirmed that the NeMO Archive was addressing NIH requests "to improve our security measure to protect human data" and anticipated the ongoing review to continue "for some time". Meanwhile, NeMO Archive, along with at least 33 other online archives, placed a disclaimer that they are "under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives" as a result of Executive Order 14168. Former NIMH director Joshua A. Gordon suggested among the requests could be an "incredibly disturbing" attempt to remove gender identity data from mental health research databases like the NeMO Archive and the NIMH Data Archive. It is unclear whether White will comply with such requests.

Awards and honors In 2015, White was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award in Bioinformatics for his promotion of free and open-access materials and methods in the life sciences.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Owen White (bioinformatician)

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Owen White (bioinformatician) claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Owen White (bioinformatician) before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Owen White (bioinformatician) ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Owen White (bioinformatician)

In research: Owen White (bioinformatician) appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Owen White (bioinformatician) in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Owen White (bioinformatician) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American bioinformaticians, Living people, New Mexico State University alumni, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Owen White (bioinformatician) outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Owen White (bioinformatician) in simple terms?

Owen R. White is a bioinformatician and director of the Institute For Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States.

Why does Owen White (bioinformatician) matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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