Nicholas James Patterson (born 9 June 1947)[1] is a mathematician working as a staff scientist at the Broad Institute with notable contributions to the area of computational genomics.
[11] He initially worked for the British code-breaking agency GCHQ and the Center for Communications Research in Princeton.
He briefly worked on gene expression data applied to cancer before switching to the study of human genetics.
[3] In 2012, Patterson developed ADMIXTOOLS, a software package written in C that is currently widely used by population geneticists.
In a long game in the Chess Olympiad of Siegen in 1970, where he played top board for Ireland, he met the Danish grandmaster Bent Larsen, who was one of the top 10 players in the world at the time, and managed to make a draw after 93 moves.