# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-myers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:34:00.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugene-myers"
name: "Eugene Myers"
slug: "eugene-myers"
description: "Eugene Wimberly \"Gene\" Myers Jr. is an American computer scientist and bioinformatician, who is best known for contributing to the early development of the National Center for Biotechnology Information's BLAST tool for sequence analysis."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gene_Myers_ISMB_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1953-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "TheGeneMyers"
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    url:       "https://www.mpi-cbg.de/research/researchgroups/currentgroups/gene-myers/group-leader"
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    title: "يوجين مايرز"
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    title: "Eugene Myers"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump