Jim Kent

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Jim Kent
Photo courtesy of Jim Kent.
Born (1960-02-10) February 10, 1960
Hawaii
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
AwardsOverton Prize
Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics)
Scientific career
ThesisPatching and painting the working draft of the human genome (2002)
Doctoral advisorAlan M Zahler
Other academic advisorsDavid Haussler
Websiteusers.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/

William James Kent (born February 10, 1960) is an American research scientist and computer programmer. He has been a contributor to genome database projects and the 2003 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award.

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