Let's make this birthday one to remember.

64 years old (Born on January 18, 1961)

Happy Birthday, Lawrence! Another year older, yet your algorithms remain timelessly youthful. Your groundbreaking work in computational biology continues to inspire awe—rumor has it even DNA strands line up neatly when they hear you're coming.

As Director of the University of Colorado's Center for Computational Biology, you've cracked codes tougher than birthday candles that refuse to blow out. May your day be filled with fewer bugs than a freshly debugged program and more joy than discovering a perfectly sequenced genome. Here's to another year of decoding life's mysteries—and perhaps finally figuring out how cake calories can be computationally erased!