Lincoln Stein

Lincoln Stein
Lincoln Stein
	Lincoln Stein with Alfonso Valencia (left) and Sarah Teichmann (center) at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2016 in Orlando, Florida.
Born	Lincoln David Stein; 1960 (age 65–66)
Alma mater	Harvard University (MD, PhD)
Known for	WormBase; BioPerl; Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD); Reactome; Sequence Ontology;
Awards	Benjamin Franklin Award (2004); ISCB Fellow (2016);
	Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics, Genome informatics
Institutions	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; Harvard Medical School; Whitehead Institute; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory;
Thesis	Cloning of developmentally regulated genes from Schistosoma mansoni (1989)
Website	oicr.on.ca/investigators/lincoln-stein

Lincoln David Stein is an American computational biologist and bioinformatician known for his contributions to community data resources, genome informatics, and open-source bioinformatics software. He is a senior investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and a professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto.

Stein has played a leading role in the development of widely used bioinformatics infrastructure and biological data resources, including the Generic Model Organism Database project, BioPerl, WormBase, and the Reactome pathway database. His work has also contributed to large international genomics initiatives such as the International Cancer Genome Consortium and the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) project.