Editing Stephen Altschul (section)

==From mathematics to bioinformatics==
During his undergraduate years, Altschul developed an interest in biology. As a result, he started reading books about DNA. One of the books that he read was ''[[The Double Helix]]'' by Watson.{{cn|date=May 2020}} Furthermore, he had also taken a course on Evolutionary Biology.{{cn|date=May 2020}} Altschul had also spent two summers working in laboratories at Rockfeller University where he helped to write computer codes for an X-ray crystallography project.{{cn|date=May 2020}}

Due to his interest, Altschul had considered trying to apply to graduate school in biology.{{cn|date=May 2020}} He instead decided to apply to programs in applied mathematics, with the hope of finding some applications of mathematics to biology to work on.