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Richard E. Green
Computational biologist and paleogenomics researcher
Also known as R. E. Green
Who they are
Richard E. Green is a computational biologist whose work helped turn ancient DNA fragments into an analyzable Neanderthal genome. During the project he developed computational methods and coordinated its design and logistics. He was first-listed and a corresponding author of the 2010 Science paper, a collaboration that used genetic evidence to investigate ancient interbreeding.
His contribution links advances in genomic methods with revised accounts of human ancestry.
Selected contributions
Selected works
Academic paper · 2010 · Peer-reviewed article
A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
The international team compares a draft Neandertal genome with sampled present-day humans. Patterns in those comparisons support an inference of gene flow into ancestors of non-African populations.
Reading scope & citation
Reused prior inspected evidence: Specified sampling, comparison and concluding gene-flow passages inspected; complete supplementary methods and raw sequences not audited. Reuses the input’s documented prior inspection: Specified sampling, comparison and concluding gene-flow passages inspected; complete supplementary methods and raw sequences not audited. No fresh full-work reread in this directory pass.
In the timeline
Biography sources
- A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome ↗Science / AAAS; copy hosted by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- UCSC’s Richard Green honored for top research paper in Science ↗University of California, Santa Cruz