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Canadian statistician
Robert Clifford Gentleman (born 1959) is a Canadian statistician and
bioinformatician
[2] who is currently the founding executive director of the Center for Computational Biomedicine at
Harvard Medical School . He was previously the vice president of computational biology at
23andMe .
[3]
[4] Gentleman is recognized, along with
Ross Ihaka , as one of the originators of the
R programming language
[5]
[6] and the
Bioconductor project.
[7]
[8]
Education
Gentleman was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in
mathematics from the
University of British Columbia .
[3] He was awarded a
Ph.D. degree in
statistics from
University of Washington in 1988; his thesis title was Exploratory methods for censored data .
[9]
Research and career
Gentleman worked as a statistics professor at the
University of Auckland in the mid-1990s, where he developed the
R programming language alongside
Ross Ihaka .
[5]
[10] In 2001, he started work on the
Bioconductor project to promote the development of open-source tools for bioinformatics and
computational biology . In 2009, Gentleman joined the
Genentech biotechnology corporation, where he worked as a senior director in bioinformatics and computational biology.
[11]
[12] Gentleman joined
personal genomics and
biotechnology company 23andMe as vice president in April 2015,
[3] with the goal of bringing expertise on bioinformatics and computational drug discovery to the company.
[4] Gentleman has also served on the board of the statistical software company
Revolution Analytics (formerly known as REvolution Computing).
[10]
Awards and honors
Gentleman won the
Benjamin Franklin Award in 2008, recognising his work on the R programming language, the Bioconductor project and his commitment to data and methods sharing.
[13] He was made a Fellow of the
International Society for Computational Biology in 2014 for his contribution to computational biology and bioinformatics.
[14]
He became a fellow of the
American Statistical Association in 2017.
[15]
References
^
Robert Gentleman at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Gentleman, R. (2005).
"Reproducible Research: A Bioinformatics Case Study" . Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology . 4 : Article2.
doi :
10.2202/1544-6115.1034 .
PMID
16646837 .
S2CID
17729314 .
^
a
b
c
"Bioinformatics Pioneer Robert Gentleman, Ph.D., Joins 23andMe Leadership Team" . Retrieved 10 August 2015 .
^
a
b
"Robert Gentleman on His Goals for Drug Discovery at 23andMe" . Retrieved 10 August 2015 .
^
a
b Ihaka, R.; Gentleman, R. (1996). "R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics . 5 (3): 299–314.
doi :
10.2307/1390807 .
JSTOR
1390807 .
^
Ashlee Vance (6 January 2009).
"R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts – NYTimes.com" . The New York Times . Retrieved 17 April 2011 .
^ Gentleman, R. C.; Carey, V. J.; Bates, D. M.; Bolstad, B.; Dettling, M.;
Dudoit, S. ; Ellis, B.; Gautier, L.; Ge, Y.; Gentry, J.; Hornik, K.; Hothorn, T.; Huber, W.; Iacus, S.; Irizarry, R.; Leisch, F.; Li, C.; Maechler, M.; Rossini, A. J.; Sawitzki, G.; Smith, C.; Smyth, G.; Tierney, L.; Yang, J. Y.; Zhang, J. (2004).
"Bioconductor: Open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics" . Genome Biology . 5 (10): R80.
doi :
10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80 .
PMC
545600 .
PMID
15461798 .
^
Robert Gentleman at
DBLP Bibliography Server
^
Gentleman, Robert Clifford (1988). Exploratory methods for censored data (PhD thesis). University of Washington.
ProQuest
303589316 .
^
a
b Wolfson, Wendy.
"A Bioinformatics Chief and a Gentleman" . Retrieved 10 August 2015 .
^ Gaudet, P.;
Bairoch, A. ; Field, D.; Sansone, S. -A.; Taylor, C.;
Attwood, T. K. ;
Bateman, A. ; Blake, J. A.; Bult, C. J.; Cherry, J. M.; Chisholm, R. L.; Cochrane, G.; Cook, C. E.; Eppig, J. T.; Galperin, M. Y.;
Gentleman, R. ;
Goble, C. A. ;
Gojobori, T. ; Hancock, J. M.; Howe, D. G.; Imanishi, T.; Kelso, J.; Landsman, D.;
Lewis, S. E. ; Karsch Mizrachi, I.; Orchard, S.; Ouellette, B. F. F.; Ranganathan, S.; Richardson, L.; Rocca-Serra, P. (2011).
"Towards BioDBcore: A community-defined information specification for biological databases" .
Database . 2011 : baq027.
doi :
10.1093/database/baq027 .
PMC
3017395 .
PMID
21205783 .
^
"Genentech: Research: Robert C. Gentleman" . Archived from
the original on 2011-07-04. Retrieved 2011-04-17 . Robert C. Gentleman Senior Director: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
^
"Benjamin Franklin Award – Bioinformatics.org" . Retrieved 10 December 2016 .
^
"ISCB Fellows" . Retrieved 10 August 2015 .
^
"ASA Fellows list" . American Statistical Association. Archived from
the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-02 .
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