David J. Lipman Scientist

David J. Lipman is an American biologist who since 1989 has been the Director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health. NCBI is the home of GenBank, the U.S. node of the International Sequence Database Consortium, and PubMed, one of the most heavily used sites in the world for the search and retrieval of biomedical information. Lipman is one of the original authors of the BLAST sequence alignment program, and a respected figure in bioinformatics.

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David J. Lipman
Education
Brown University
University at Buffalo The State University of New York

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Scientist

awards
National Academy of Sciences
ISCB Senior Scientist Awards
Field of study
Bioinformatics
Computational biology
Molecular evolution
Sequence analysis
Comparative genomics
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External resources

  1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/staff/lipman