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Robert Gentleman

Canadian statistician and bioinformatician · Canada · On the map · Born 1959 · age 67

Robert Clifford Gentleman is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician who is currently the founding executive director of the Center for Computational Biomedicine at Harvard Medical School. He was previously the vice president of computational biology at 23andMe.

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2016Fellow of the American Statistical AssociationAward2014ISCB FellowAward2008Benjamin Franklin AwardAward1959Born

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Fellow of the American Statistical Association2016
ISCB Fellow2014
Benjamin Franklin Award2008

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Gentleman is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language and the Bioconductor project.

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Born 1959 · age 67

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