Stuart M. Brown is Associate Professor in the Cell Biology Department and a senior faculty member in the Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics at New York University School of Medicine where he serves as Operations Director for the Bioinformatics consulting group and leader of the Sequence Informatics group. He has taught graduate courses in Bioinformatics at NYU for 12 years and he is the author of textbooks on Bioinformatics and Medical Genomics. He is editor and co-author of a new book on Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Informatics that will be published by Cold Spring Harbor in late 2012. He received his PhD in molecular biology from Cornell University