Craig Venter Institute. He is the lead software engineer for the Celera Assembler, primarily responsible for developing algorithms to incorporate next generation sequencing data. He has developed genome comparison and high throughput cDNA/EST alignment software at Celera, and contributed to protein folding research at Sandia National Laboratories. Mr. Walenz received his Master's degree in computer science from the University of New Mexico and his Bachelor's degree in computer engineering and computer science from Iowa State University. Select Publications