Sean Roberts Eddy is Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics at Harvard University.

[9][10][11][12] As of 2016[update] projects include the use of Hidden Markov models[13][14] in HMMER, Infernal[15] Pfam and Rfam.

He then completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology at California Institute of Technology in 1986,[20] followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in molecular biology at the University of Colorado under the supervision of Larry Gold in 1991 studying the T4 phage.

[2][21][22] From 1992 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge UK working with John Sulston and Richard Durbin.

In 2007, Sean was the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Bioinformatics for contributions to Open Access in the Life Sciences.