Steven Henikoff Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Researcher in chromatin biology and bioinformatics. With Jorja G. Henikoff, Henikoff developed amino acid substitution matrices from conserved protein blocks; these provide empirically grounded scores for comparing protein sequences.[ref]
Amino acid substitution matrices from protein blocks by Steven Henikoff and Jorja G. Henikoff. Title, author list and reported study