Prof. Michael Waterman gave the lecture named “Reading DNA Sequences along Eulerian Pathways” at AMSS on April.12, 2013.

In his talk, he introduced that the Human Genome Project determined the genome sequence by the now classical overlap-layout-consensus. The raw data was reads of a few hundred basepairs at random locations in the genome. After the genome sequence was made public, new technology was developed that radically speeded up sequencing by orders of magnitude although the random reads were much shorter in length. Besides, he described these developments and the application of Euler's graphs which has replaced the former computational techniques.

Professor Waterman works in the area of Computational Biology, concentrating on the creation and application of mathematics, statistics and computer science to molecular biology, particularly to DNA, RNA and protein sequence data. He is the co-developer of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for sequence comparison and of the Lander-Waterman formula for physical mapping.