Jeremy Schmutz

Jeremy Schmutz began programming computers when he was five years old. He graduated from North Central College in Illinois in three years with a B.S. in computer science and a B.A. in biology. During college, he worked on DNA sequencing technology at Argonne National Laboratory that led to his first research position developing parallel sequencing systems at a small Silicon Valley startup company.

In 1996, Schmutz joined the newly formed sequencing group at the Stanford Human Genome Center (SHGC) to develop the computational infrastructure necessary for large scale DNA sequencing. Schmutz and his group finished and assembled the human sequence of chromosomes 5, 16 and 19. He also led the quality assessment of the human genome sequence that evaluated the accuracy and completeness of the final human genome sequence. Currently, Schmutz leads the informatics and production sequencing groups at the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center and continues to work on genome sequencing projects of plants and fungi.  Support Schmutz's work.