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Alexander Knaster

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British-American businessman

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Born: 1959-02-19

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5 total works indexed

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,630x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,569x
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,139x
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,068x
QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,538x

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Born: 19 February 1959

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Instance of: human
Given name: Alexander
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Moscow
Educated at: Harvard Business School
Languages spoken: English language

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