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Aaron Darling is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He entered Simon's Rock College in 1997
and received an honorary high school diploma in 1998. In 2000 he received a
Bachelor of Science degree from UW-Madison, where he elected to pursue graduate
studies the following year. In 2002 he was awarded a National Library of
Medicine
Fellowship
for
training in Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine at UW-Madison.
In 2002 Aaron accepted a summer research internship working with
Dr. Wu-chun Feng at Los Alamos National Labs. Dr. Feng's group had recently
published several articles on a low-power, high-density Transmeta cluster called
Green Destiny. Impressed by the efficiency of Green Destiny, Aaron could not
help
but
'imagine a beowulf cluster of these running BLAST.' During this internship he
began work on mpiBLAST, an open source parallelization of BLAST. During his
stay in
Los Alamos he also discovered a passion for mountain-biking and ultimate
frisbee. Aaron's current research project is methods for multiple genome alignment
in the presence of inversions and rearrangements.
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