Laurie J. Heyer is an American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics.
[3] Heyer is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington.
Her dissertation, The Probabilistic Behavior of Sequence Analysis Scores with Application to Structural Alignment of RNA, was jointly supervised by John A. Williamson and Gary Stormo.
[4] With Malcolm Campbell, Heyer is the author of the textbook Discovering Genomics, Proteomics, & Bioinformatics (Benjamin Cummings and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2003; 2nd ed., Pearson, 2007).
[5] Campbell, Heyer, and Christopher Paradise also wrote the electronic text Integrating Concepts in Biology.