Ladeana Hillier is a biomedical engineer and computational biologist. She was one of the earliest scientists involved in the
Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a ...
and is noted for her work in various branches of
DNA sequencing
DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA. It includes any method or technology that is used to determine the order of the four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. Th ...
, as well as for having co-developed
Phred, a widely used DNA trace analyzer.
[Highsmith, W. E. (2006) ''Electrophoretic Methods for Mutation Detection and DNA Sequencing'', chapter 9 in "Molecular Diagnostics for the Clinical Laboratorian", Humana Press]
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Phred base calling Phred is a computer program for base calling, that is to say, identifying a nucleobase sequence from fluorescence "trace" data generated by an automated DNA sequencer that uses electrophoresis and 4-fluorescent dye method. When originally developed, ...
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American bioinformaticians
Human Genome Project scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
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