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Ben Foster
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English association football player (born 1983)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Foster SAT
- Foster Math 1
- Monsieur le No
- Ben Foster 2400
- Here I Stand on the Issues
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
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- 11,709
- Total plays
- 459,771
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Born in Liverpool, UK, Ben is a composer, orchestrator and conductor. He is best known for his work as orchestrator and conductor on the BBC series Doctor Who, as well as his work composing for the first three series of the BBC’s Torchwood, which earned him 3 BAFTA nominations in the “Best Music” category. Ben is also known for his arrangement and conducting work on films such as Prometheus and The Grey, and for artists such as Gary Barlow, Peter Gabriel and Hayley Westenra. <a href="https://ww
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,814x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 53,934x
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,100x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 22,014x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,930x
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Key facts
- 2002
- → Bristol City (loan)
- 2004
- → Stafford Rangers (loan)
- 2005
- → Wrexham (loan)
- 2023
- Wrexham
- Full name
- Ben Anthony Foster
- Date of birth
- ( 1983-04-03 ) 3 April 1983 (age 43)
- Place of birth
- Leamington Spa , England
- Height
- 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- 0000 2000
- Racing Club Warwick
- Years
- Team
- 2000 2001
- Racing Club Warwick
- 2001 2005
- Stoke City
- 2002 2003
- → Tiverton Town (loan)
- 2005 2010
- Manchester United
- 2005 2006
- → Watford (loan)
- 2006 2007
- → Watford (loan)
- 2010 2012
- Birmingham City
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Nationality
- England
via TheSportsDB
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Encyclopedic overview
Ben Anthony Foster (born 3 April 1983) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Foster began his professional career in 2001 with Stoke City, having joined from Racing Club Warwick. However, he never made an appearance for Stoke, and spent time on loan with Bristol City, Tiverton Town, Stafford Rangers, Kidderminster Harriers, and Wrexham. He switched permanently to Manchester United in July 2005, but again struggled to break into the first team, and spent two successive seasons on loan to Watford from August 2005 until the end of the 2006–07 season.
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