Salzberg has been a prominent scientist in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology since the 1990s . He has made many contributions to gene finding algorithms , notably the GLIMMER program for bacterial gene finding as well as several related programs for finding genes in animals , plants , and other organisms . He has also been a leader in genome assembly research and is one of the initiators of the open source AMOS project . He was a participant in the human genome project as well as many other genome projects , including the malaria genome ( '' Plasmodium falciparum '' ) and the genome of the model plant '' Arabidopsis thaliana '' . In 2001-2002 , he and his colleagues sequenced the anthrax that was used in the 2001 anthrax attacks . They published their results in the journal Science in 2002 . These findings helped the FBI track the source of the attacks to a single vial at Ft. Detrick in Frederick , Maryland
2001 anthrax attacks
2001 anthrax attacks
Steven Salzberg