Anton Yuryev is famous Russian American scientist. He was awarded Ph.D at Johns Hopkins University for discovery of novel family of proteins interacting with C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II holoenzyme using yeast two-hybrid screening. Sequence similarity of these proteins to splicing factors suggested the existence of physical coupling between transcription and post-transcriptional modification of messenger RNA. He continued his research as postdoctoral fellow at Novartis Pharmaceuticals where he demonstrated that mammalian ARAF protein kinase can be imported into mitochondria.During the completion of human genome sequencing he started working in the new emerging field of bioinformatics. While working at Orchid Biosciences between 2001 and 2003 he authored several algorithms for PCR