Professor Lincoln D. Stein is a scientist and leader in bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...

 and computational biology

Computational biology

Computational biology involves the development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems...

 at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research is a not-for-profit organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that focuses on the prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. OICR intends to make Ontario more effective in knowledge transfer and commercialization while maximizing...

. Current projects include Reactome

Reactome

Reactome is a database of biological pathways. There are several Reactomes that concentrate on a specific organism, the largest of these is focused on human biology, but includes pathway steps inferred to exist in humans based on experimental data from model organisms and pathways computationally...

, WormBase

WormBase

WormBase is an online bioinformatics database of the biology and genome of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes....

,, BioPerl

BioPerl

BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. It has played an integral role in the Human Genome Project....

, Gramene, ENCODE

ENCODE

ENCODE is a public research consortium launched by the US National Human Genome Research Institute in September 2003. The goal is to find all functional elements in the human genome, one of the most critical projects by NHGRI after it completed the successful Human Genome Project...

 , the Generic Model Organism Database

Generic Model Organism Database

The Generic Model Organism Database Project began as an effort to create reusable software tools for developing Model Organism Databases . MODs describe genome and other information about important experimental organisms in the life sciences...

  and Cloud computing

Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

. In 2004, Lincoln was the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Bioinformatics

Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics)

The Benjamin Franklin Award is an award for Open Access in the Life Sciences presented by the Bioinformatics Organization-Laureates:*2002 - Michael B. Eisen*2003 - Jim Kent*2004 - Lincoln D. Stein*2005 - Ewan Birney*2006 - Michael Ashburner...

.

Stein is also the original developer of CGI.pm

CGI.pm

CGI.pm is a large and widely used Perl module for programming Common Gateway Interface web applications, providing a consistent API for receiving user input and producing HTML or XHTML output....

 and a contributor to mod perl

Mod perl

mod_perl is an optional module for the Apache HTTP server. It embeds a Perl interpreter into the Apache server, so that dynamic content produced by Perl scripts can be served in response to incoming requests, without the significant overhead of re-launching the Perl interpreter for each request...

, both widely used in the Perl language programming for web applications, as well as many other Perl module

Perl module

A Perl module is a discrete component of software for the Perl programming language. Technically, it is a particular set of conventions for using Perl's package mechanism that has become universally adopted....

s and associated books.

Education and employment

Stein completed a Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...

 at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....

 and a PhD

PHD

PHD may refer to:*Ph.D., a doctorate of philosophy*Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*PHD finger, a protein sequence*PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company*PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

 in Cell Biology

Cell biology

Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...

 at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 both in 1989 via the MD/PhD

MD/PhD

MD/PhD refers to an education which includes both the medical training of a physician with the rigor of a scientific researcher . It can refer to the designation given to a person who has graduated from such an education, or an educational program which incorporates both curricula.-Profession:An...

 program. From 1992-1997 he was a director of informatics at the MIT Genome Centre, Whitehead Institute

Whitehead Institute

Founded in 1982, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research and teaching institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA....

 of Biomedical Research. From 1998 to 2004 he was an Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. The Laboratory has a broad educational mission, including the recently established Watson School of Biological Sciences. It...

. He has been working at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research since 2007.