Mikhail Sergeyevich Gelfand (russian: Михаил Сергеевич Гельфанд; born 25 October 1963) is a Russian Bioinformaticist and

molecular biologist Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physi ...

. He is a member of

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, Vice President Biomedical Research of

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, or Skoltech, is a private institute located in Moscow, Russia. Skoltech was established in 2011 as part of a multi-year partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Globally ...

, one of the founder of

Dissernet Dissernet (russian: Диссернет) is a volunteer community network working to clean Russian science of plagiarism. The core activity of the community is conducting examinations of doctoral and habilitation (higher doctorate) theses defended ...

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fighting society and a political activist, former member of

Russian Opposition Coordination Council The Russian Opposition Coordination Council (OCC or KSO; russian: Координационный совет российской оппозиции, КСО – ''Koordinatsionnyy sovet rossiyskoy oppozitsii'', KSO) was a council created in October ...

. He is a grandson of a prominent Soviet mathematician

Israel Gelfand Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand ( yi, ישראל געלפֿאַנד, russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд, uk, Ізраїль Мойсейович Гел� ...

Some works by Mikhail Gelfand

* Gelfand M. S. Statistical analysis of mammalian pre-mRNA splicing sites //

Nucleic Acids Research ''Nucleic Acids Research'' is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1974 by the Oxford University Press. The journal covers research on nucleic acids, such as DNA and RNA, and related work. According to the ''Journal Cit ...

. 1989. V. 17. N. 15. 6369—6382. * Gelfand M. S. Computer prediction of the exon-intron structure of mammalian pre-mRNAs //

. 1990. Y. 18. N. 19. P. 5865—5869. * Gelfand M. S. Statistical analysis and prediction of the exonic structure of human genes //

Journal of Molecular Evolution The ''Journal of Molecular Evolution'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers molecular evolution. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and was established in 1971. The founding editor was Emile Zuckerkandl, who re ...

. 1992. Y. 35. N. 2. P. 239—252. * Gelfand M. S. Genetic language: metaphore or analogy //

BioSystems ''BioSystems'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering experimental, computational, and theoretical research that links biology, evolution, and the information processing sciences. It was established in 1967 as ''Currents in Modern B ...

. 1993. V. 30. P. 277—288 * Pevzner Р. А., Gelfand M. S., eds. Computer Genetics. A special issue on computational molecular biology //

. 1993. V. 30. * Gelfand M. S., Mironov A. A., Pevzner P. A. Spliced alignment: a new approach to gene recognition //

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. 1996. V. 1075. P. 141—158. * Gelfand M. S., Mironov A. A., Pevzner P. A. Gene recognition via spliced sequence alignment //

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. 1996. V. 93. P. 9061-9066. * Gelfand M. S., Koonin E. V. Avoidance of palindromic words in bacterial and archaeal genomes: a close connection with restriction enzymes //

. 1997. V. 27. P. 2430—2439. * Sze S.-H, Roytberg М. А., Gelfand M. S., Mironov A. A., Astakhova T. V., Pevzner P. A. Algorithms and software for support of gene identification experiments //

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

* Mironov A. A., Roytberg M. A., Pevzner P. A., Gelfand M. S. Performance guarantee gene predictions via spliced alignment //

Genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

Awards and honors

In 2022, Gelfand was elected as a

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of the

International Society for Computational Biology The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a scholarly society for researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics. The society was founded in 1997 to provide a stable financial home for the Intelligent Systems for Mole ...

References

External links

Gelfand publications on ЗubmedPopular science videos by Gelfand on Youtube
Russian bioinformaticians Russian geneticists Molecular biologists Russian activists 1963 births Living people Russian activists against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Moscow State University alumni Members of Academia Europaea Academic staff of the Higher School of Economics Academic staff of Moscow State University Science communicators {{Russia-scientist-stub