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Andrew Fire
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American biologist
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- RNA Interference Technology
- RNA Interference Technology
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969
Discography
- Earth, Wind & Fire1971
- The Need of Love1971
- Last Days and Time1972
- Head to the Sky1973
- Open Our Eyes1974
- Spirit1976
- All ’n All1977
- I Am1979
- Faces1980
- Raise!1981
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,639x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,768x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,691x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,351x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,710x
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- profiles.stanford.edu/andrew-fire
- Image
- Vice President Dick Cheney meets with the 2006 U.S. Nobel Laureates, Thursday, November 30, 2006.jpg
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- Andrew Fire
- date of birth
- 1959-04-27
- Erdős number
- 4
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Article
Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.
Biography