Mikhail Sergeyevich Gelfand (; born 25 October 1963) is a Russian Bioinformaticist and

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. He is a member of

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, Vice President Biomedical Research of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, one of the founder of

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fighting society and a political activist, former member of

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. He is a grandson of a prominent Soviet mathematician

Israel Gelfand Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (, , ; – 5 October 2009) was a prominent Soviet and American mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, biologist, teache ...

Some works by Mikhail Gelfand

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

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. 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. 1992. Y. 35. N. 2. P. 239–252. * Gelfand M. S. Genetic language: metaphore or analogy // BioSystems. 1993. V. 30. P. 277—288 * Pevzner Р. А., Gelfand M. S., eds. Computer Genetics. A special issue on computational molecular biology // BioSystems. 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 //

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

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Awards and honors

In 2022, Gelfand was elected as a

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of the International Society for Computational Biology.

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External links

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