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Mark Gerstein is the Williams professor of Biomedical Informatics at Yale. He is also the co-director of the Yale Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Program and Biomedical Data Science Center and has appointments in the Departments of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Computer Science, and Statistics & Data Science. He received his AB in physics from Harvard and his PhD in chemistry from Cambridge, did post-doctoral work at Stanford, and moved to Yale in 1997. His research is focused on bioinformatics; he is particularly interested in data science, macromolecular simulation, human-genome annotation, neuro- & cancer genomics, genomic privacy and biomedical text analysis. 

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