钟扬，15岁考入中国科学技术大学少年班，20岁毕业于该校无线电电子学系。40岁获日本国立综合研究大学院大学生物系统科学博士。现任上海生物信息技术研究中心副主任，复旦大学生命科学院教授，西藏大学生物多样性与地生物学研究所所长. 兼任“科学通报”及BMC Bioinformatics和Journal of Bioscience等国际杂志编委。
    青年时光大半在风景如画的植物园度过，坚持自学植物学（在中科院武汉植物所工作15年，含在加州大学柏克莱分校和密执安州立大学4年）；35岁后转入复旦大学从事进化生物学和生物信息学研究，发表论文100余篇, 两次获教育部自然科学一等奖；45岁获国家杰出青年基金（植物学）和教育部长江特聘教授。

主要研究方向: 生物信息学, 分子进化与系统发育

著作和译著：

大流感——最致命瘟疫的史诗
（美）巴里 / 2008-12-1 / 上海科技教育出版社 / 最致命瘟疫的史诗 / 49.8 / 平装 / 钟扬 / 赵佳媛 / 刘念
ISBN: 9787542847225
页数: 636

林肯的DNA以及遗传学上的其他冒险
（美）菲利普·R·赖利 / 2005-9-1 / 上海科技教育出版社 / 33.0 / 平装 / 钟扬
ISBN: 9787542837974
页数: 375

分子进化与系统发育 / Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
Kumar著吕宝忠 / (美)Sudhir / (美)Masatoshi / 钟扬 / Nei / 2002-6-1 / 高等教育出版社 / 32.0 / 平装 / 根井正利 / 299页
ISBN: 9787040112047
页数: 299页

基因女郎伽莫夫
詹姆斯·D·沃森 / 2003-4-1 / 上海科技教育出版社 / 23.5 / 平装 / 赵琼 / 钟扬 / 沈玮 / 王旭
ISBN: 9787542831323
页数: 263

计算分子进化（复旦大学进化生物学书丛）
（英）杨子恒 / 2008-6-1 / 复旦大学出版社 / 58.0 / 平装 / 钟扬
ISBN: 9787309060423
页数: 364

生物信息学(中文版)
(美)芒特 / 2003-09-01 / 高等教育出版社 / 56.00 / 平装 / 钟扬
ISBN: 9787040121872

DNA博士
（匈）豪尔吉陶伊 / 2009-10-1 / 上海科学技术出版社 / 与沃森的坦诚对话 / 32.00 / 平装 / 杨桢 / 钟扬 / 赵佳媛
ISBN: 9787532398669
页数: 225

简明生物信息学
钟扬等编 / 2001-12-1 / 高等教育出版社 / 15.9 / 平装
ISBN: 9787040101591

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