Presidential Young Investigator Award

该总统青年研究员奖为计算机应用于核苷酸序列数据分析和解释的前沿研究提供资金。奥尔森博士和他的同事们已经在将现代分子技术应用于旨在回答查尔斯·达尔文时代首次提出的各种生物学问题的研究方面取得了重大进展。通过与自己所在机构和其他地方的科学家合作，奥尔森博士将在设计新算法方面发挥重要作用，这些算法利用基本的化学和遗传原理来提高这类分析的严谨性；他还将把这些方法应用于使用核苷酸序列数据来预测核酸的三级结构的相关问题，也可能用于预测蛋白质的三级结构。

This Presidential Young Investigator award provides funds for studies at the forefront of the application of computers to the analysis and interpretation of nucleotide sequence data. Dr. Olsen and his colleagues have already made significant strides in the application of modern molecular techniques to research aimed at answering types of biological questions first posed at the time of Charles Darwin. Through collaborations with scientists at his own institution and elsewhere, Dr. Olsen will play an important role in devising new algorithms that exploit basic chemical and genetic principles to increase the rigor of this type of analysis; he will also apply these methods to related problems in the use of nucleotide sequence data for the prediction of tertiary structure of nucleic acids and, possibly, that of proteins as well.