Biography:David J. Lipman

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David Lipman
Paul Ginsparg and David Lipman.jpg
David Lipman (right) with Paul Ginsparg in June 2013
Born
David J. Lipman
Alma materBrown University
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Known forInfluence on development of BLAST (biotechnology)[1]
AwardsISCB Senior Scientist Award
Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
ISCB Fellow[2]
Scientific career
FieldsBioinformatics
Computational biology
Sequence comparison methods
Comparative genomics
Molecular evolution
InstitutionsNational Center for Biotechnology Information
Brown University
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Notable studentsStephen Altschul[3]
Mark Boguski[citation needed]
Websitewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/staff/lipman

David J. Lipman is an American biologist who since 1989Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

Career

Lipman was a director of National Center for Biotechnology Information at National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. This center included groups led by Stephen Altschul (another BLAST co-author), David Landsman, Eugene Koonin[4] (a prolific author on comparative genomics), and L. Aravind.

He is most well known for his work on a series of sequence similarity algorithm, starting from the Wilbur-Lipman[5] algorithm in 1983, FASTA search[6][7] search in 1985, BLAST[8] in 1990, and Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST[9] 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.[10][11][12]

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.[citation needed]

He is also the Editor-in-Chief for an open access, peer reviewed online scientific journal called Biology Direct.[13]

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.[14]

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.[2][15]

In 2005, Dr. Lipman was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.[citation needed]

In 2013, he received the award of a White House "Open Science" Champion of Change.[16][17]

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 Anon (2017). "ISCB Fellows". International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20170320114530/https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows. 
  3. "Sense from Sequences: Stephen F. Altschul on Bettering BLAST". 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20071007132448/http://www.sciencewatch.com/july-aug2000/sw_july-aug2000_page3.htm. 
  4. Tatusov, R. L.; Koonin, E. V.; Lipman, D. J. (1997). "A Genomic Perspective on Protein Families". Science 278 (5338): 631–637. doi:10.1126/science.278.5338.631. PMID 9381173. Bibcode1997Sci...278..631T. https://zenodo.org/record/1231126. 
  5. Wilbur, W. J.; Lipman, D. J. (1983). "Rapid similarity searches of nucleic acid and protein data banks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 80 (3): 726–730. doi:10.1073/pnas.80.3.726. PMID 6572363. Bibcode1983PNAS...80..726W. 
  6. Lipman, D.; Pearson, W. (1985). "Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches". Science 227 (4693): 1435–1441. doi:10.1126/science.2983426. PMID 2983426. Bibcode1985Sci...227.1435L. 
  7. Pearson, W. R.; Lipman, D. J. (1988). "Improved tools for biological sequence comparison". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 85 (8): 2444–2448. doi:10.1073/pnas.85.8.2444. PMID 3162770. Bibcode1988PNAS...85.2444P. 
  8. Altschul, Stephen; Gish, Warren; Miller, Webb; Myers, Eugene; Lipman, David (1990). "Basic local alignment search tool". Journal of Molecular Biology 215 (3): 403–410. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80360-2. PMID 2231712. http://www.blastalgorithm.com. 
  9. Altschul, S.; Madden, T. L.; Schäffer, A. A.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, Z.; Miller, W.; Lipman, D. J. (1997). "Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: A new generation of protein database search programs". Nucleic Acids Research 25 (17): 3389–3402. doi:10.1093/nar/25.17.3389. PMID 9254694. 
  10. Benson, D. A.; Cavanaugh, M.; Clark, K.; Karsch-Mizrachi, I.; Lipman, D. J.; Ostell, J.; Sayers, E. W. (2012). "GenBank". Nucleic Acids Research 41 (Database issue): D36–D42. doi:10.1093/nar/gks1195. PMID 23193287. 
  11. Benson, D. A.; Karsch-Mizrachi, I.; Clark, K.; Lipman, D. J.; Ostell, J.; Sayers, E. W. (2011). "GenBank". Nucleic Acids Research 40 (Database issue): D48–D53. doi:10.1093/nar/gkr1202. PMID 22144687. 
  12. Benson, D. A.; Karsch-Mizrachi, I.; Lipman, D. J.; Ostell, J.; Sayers, E. W. (2010). "GenBank". Nucleic Acids Research 39 (Database issue): D32–D37. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1079. PMID 21071399. 
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20110930060756/http://www.biology-direct.com/about/edboard. Retrieved 2011-10-28. 
  14. "National Library of Medicine Announces Departure of NCBI Director Dr. David Lipman". https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/nlm_announces_departure_of_ncbi_director_david_lipman.html. 
  15. "ISCB Names 2004 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award Winner, Dr. David Lipman ISCB Newsletter 7-3". http://www.iscb.org/images/stories/newsletter/newsletter7-3/ssaa.html. Retrieved 2 July 2011. 
  16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-04-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20160405162904/https://www.whitehouse.gov/champions/open-science. Retrieved 2016-04-02. 
  17. "Dr. David Lipman Receives White House "Open Science" Champions of Change Award on Behalf of NCBI". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/06-20-2013-whitehouse-champion-of-change-award/.