Marie-France Sagot is director of research at the

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(INRIA) and a member of staff at

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where she works on

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s for computational biology and

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and biological

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. She was elected a

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of the

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(ISCB) in 2019 for "outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics". Since 2002 she has been a visiting

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at King's College London.

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