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Name
  
David Lipman


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Fields
  
BioinformaticsComputational biologySequence comparison methodsComparative genomicsMolecular evolution

Institutions
  
National Center for Biotechnology InformationBrown UniversityUniversity at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Alma mater
  
Brown UniversityUniversity at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Notable awards
  
Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist AwardMember of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Education
  
Brown University, University at Buffalo

Notable students
  

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David J. Lipman is an American biologist who since 1989 to 2017 had 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. In May 2017, it was announced that he would be leaving NCBI and would be taking the position of Chief Science Officer at Impossible Foods.

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Education

David J. Lipman Milestones The NIH Record July 19 2013

Lipman received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his M.D. in 1980 from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Career

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Lipman leads an intramural research program, including groups led by Stephen Altschul (another BLAST co-author), David Landsman, Eugene Koonin (a prolific author on comparative genomics), and L. Aravind.

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He is most well known for his work on a series of sequence similarity algorithm, starting from the Wilbur-Lipman algorithm in 1983, FASTA search search in 1985, BLAST in 1990, and Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST in 1997.

Lipman also works with Dennis A. Benson and others at NCBI, contributing to the maintenance and improvement of GenBank and annually publishes a paper on their progress. The improvements include specification of data format, curation of data, integration of protein information with DNA sequences and scientific literature.

He was one of the originators of the Influenza Genome Sequencing Project, a project to sequence and make available the genomes of thousands of influenza virus isolates.

He is also the Editor-in-Chief for an open access, peer reviewed online scientific journal called Biology Direct.

In May 2017, it was announced that Lipman would leave his role at the NCBI to join plant-based meat company Impossible Foods as Chief Scientific Officer.

Awards and honors

Lipman received the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Award for outstanding contributions to Biomolecular Technologies in 1996.

In 2004, he was awarded the ISCB Senior Scientist Award and elected an ISCB Fellow in 2009 by the International Society for Computational Biology.

In 2005, Dr. Lipman was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.

In 2013, he received the award of a White House "Open Science" Champion of Change.

References

David J. Lipman Wikipedia