# David Haussler **Domain:** Computational Biology / Machine Learning / Genomics **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **David Haussler** is a computer scientist and computational biologist associated with UC Santa Cruz whose work spans machine learning, genome analysis and comparative genomics. ## Nexus Context Haussler joined the public Human Genome Project's computational work and recruited Jim Kent during the 2000 assembly effort. The resulting UCSC infrastructure helped make the public draft accessible and later supported comparative genomics. [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] uses Haussler to show that genome assembly was simultaneously biological and computational. The assembly problem required algorithms capable of imposing coordinates on fragments without confusing the reference with any single person's complete genome. ## Sources / Provenance - UCSC Genome Browser project history: https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/history.html - UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute: https://genomics.ucsc.edu/about-us/leadership/ ## See Also [[wiki/Jim Kent|Jim Kent]], [[wiki/UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute|UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute]], [[wiki/Machine Learning|Machine Learning]], [[wiki/Comparative Genomics|Comparative Genomics]]