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Nick Goldman

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Nick Goldman
Born
Nicholas Goldman
NationalityEnglish
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
Known forDNA digital data storage
Evolutionary genetics
AwardsWellcome Trust Senior Fellow (1995–2006)
Scientific career
FieldsBioinformatics
InstitutionsEuropean Bioinformatics Institute
ThesisStatistical estimation of evolutionary trees (1991)

Nicholas Goldman is a group leader and senior scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), located on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England. He began working at the EBI in 2002, and became a senior scientist there in 2009.[1] His group's research focuses on evolutionary genetics and genomics.[2] He and his EBI colleague Ewan Birney, along with other researchers, developed a tool for DNA digital data storage, on which they successfully encoded all the sonnets of William Shakespeare, Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech, a PDF of the 1953 paper "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", and a photo of their own institute. They described their results in a 2013 paper in Nature.[3][4][5][6]

References

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  1. ^ "Nick Goldman". European Bioinformatics Institute. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Goldman group". European Bioinformatics Institute. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  3. ^ Goldman, Nick; Bertone, Paul; Chen, Siyuan; Dessimoz, Christophe; LeProust, Emily M.; Sipos, Botond; Birney, Ewan (February 2013). "Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA". Nature. 494 (7435): 77–80. Bibcode:2013Natur.494...77G. doi:10.1038/nature11875. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 3672958. PMID 23354052.
  4. ^ Yong, Ed (23 January 2013). "Synthetic double-helix faithfully stores Shakespeare's sonnets". Nature News. doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12279. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  5. ^ Yong, Ed (2 March 2017). "This Speck of DNA Contains a Movie, a Computer Virus, and an Amazon Gift Card". The Atlantic. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  6. ^ Markoff, John (28 January 2013). "Using DNA to Store Digital Information". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
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