* Correspondence: aun1@psu.edu; mschatz@cs.jhu.edu Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Departments of Computer Science and Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA James Peter Taylor, the Ralph S. O’Connor Professor of Biology and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), passed away on April 2, 2020. He was 40 years old. James was an exceptional scientist, colleague, mentor, and community builder, who worked at the intersection of biology and computer science. His life’s pursuit was to understand how genomic and epigenomic information is processed during normal development and dysregulated in disease. As co-leader of the Galaxy (http://galaxyproject.org) [1] and AnVIL (http://anvilproject.org) Projects, a major thrust of James’ career aimed to support the work of others, especially to empower those with limited resources. His impact was broad, as innumerable scientists worldwide benefited from his leadership, mentoring, and scientific contributions. James completed a BS. in Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude) at the University of Vermont in 2000. After spending 3 years as a senior software engineer in Vermont, he joined the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the Pennsylvania State University in the Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics under the supervision of Professors Webb Miller and Francesca Chiaromonte. His Ph.D. work focused on developing novel machine learning approaches for identifying functional elements in the genome [2], leveraging the wealth of new data from ENCODE (https://www.encodeproject.org/) and the alignments of newly assembled vertebrate genomes [3].

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纪念詹姆斯·泰勒：银河的诞生

* 通讯：aun1@psu.edu；mschatz@cs.jhu.edu 美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学生物化学和分子生物学系 美国宾夕法尼亚州大学公园 约翰霍普金斯大学计算机科学和生物学系 美国马里兰州巴尔的摩 James Peter Taylor, the Ralph S. O约翰霍普金斯大学（JHU）生物学和计算机科学康纳教授于 2020 年 4 月 2 日去世，享年 40 岁。James 是一位杰出的科学家、同事、导师和社区建设者，他在生物学和计算机科学的交叉领域工作。他一生的追求是了解基因组和表观基因组信息在正常发育过程中是如何处理的，以及在疾病中是如何失调的。作为 Galaxy (http://galaxyproject.org) [1] 和 AnVIL (http://anvilproject.org) 项目的联合负责人，詹姆斯职业生涯的一个主要目标是支持他人的工作，尤其是为那些资源有限的人赋权。他的影响是广泛的，全世界无数科学家都从他的领导、指导和科学贡献中受益。詹姆斯完成了学士学位。2000 年获得佛蒙特大学计算机科学博士学位（Magna Cum Laude）。在佛蒙特州做了 3 年高级软件工程师后，他加入了博士学位。在 Webb Miller 和 Francesca Chiaromonte 教授的监督下，宾夕法尼亚州立大学比较基因组学和生物信息学中心的计算机科学专业。他的博士学位 工作重点是开发新的机器学习方法来识别基因组中的功能元件 [2]，利用来自 ENCODE (https://www.encodeproject.com) 的大量新数据。