Research Interests and Accomplishments

Saul A. Kravitz is Director of Bioinformatics Software  at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). Kravitz is a co-investigator on the CAMERA project, serving as the Technical Lead for all CAMERA-related development activities at JCVI. He joined JCVI in 2002 during its startup phase, hired the software engineering staff, and now manages software development activities within the Informatics department. His team develops, maintains, and operates the award-winning software supporting 24x7 operation of JCVI's DNA sequencing facility and as well as high-throughput analysis pipelines for shotgun assembly and polymorphism detection from PCR-based resequencing, genomic and metagenomic annotation, classification of rRNA sequences, the CMR, and the CAMERA repository for metagenomic data and tools.

Previously, at Celera Genomics, he built and managed the team that developed novel algorithms and software infrastructure supporting high-throughput protein identification and quantitation from mass spectrometry data, and, as a member of Celera's Informatics Research team, made key contributions to the development of Celera's Whole Genome Shotgun Assembler. At IBM's Haifa Research Lab, Kravitz led development of document processing tools and optimizing compilers for the IBM AS/400.

He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.A. in Physics from The Johns Hopkins University.

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