On: “Shellshock”

[anuragbiyani]

To add to this:

He is the co-inventor of "Burrows–Wheeler transform", which is a key component in any modern genomics analysis pipeline, used in bzip2 (the "b" stands for BWT), etc.

[jamessb → anuragbiyani]

The transform was produced by a different David Wheeler, who was a computer scientist at Cambridge and died in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_%28British_compu...

[anuragbiyani → jamessb]

Apologies for the confusion, and thanks for the correction @jamessb. I mixed the author of the post with David J Wheeler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_(British_computer..., when the author is clearly David A. Wheeler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wheeler).