# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-altschul
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:39:28.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-altschul"
name: "Stephen Altschul"
slug: "stephen-altschul"
description: "Stephen Frank Altschul is an American mathematician who has designed algorithms that are used in the field of bioinformatics. Altschul is the co-author of the BLAST algorithm used for sequence analysis of proteins and nucleotides."
tagline: "Mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-02-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.05128205128205
  historical:           5.686898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Stephen Altschul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ستيفن ألتشول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Altschul"
    title: "Stephen Altschul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Altschul"
    title: "Stephen Altschul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Altschul"
    title: "Stephen Altschul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Altschul"
    title: "Stephen Altschul"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump