Profile of Eugene V. Koonin

Reflections on the quest to obtain biological information from genomic data

“…He once remarked how he was referred to as "Mr. Koonin" by one editor, who apparently assumed that such computationally based nonsense could not have been by someone with a Ph.D. However, Eugene prevailed to become one of the most respected computational biologists with over 900 publications [8]. The fact that he is a "hunt-and-peck" typist makes his prolific publication record even more remarkable.…”