Minoru Kanehisa
Japanese bioinformatician (born 1948) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Minoru Kanehisa (金久 實) (born January 23, 1948) is a Japanese bioinformatician. He is a project professor at Kyoto University, technical director of Pathway Solutions Inc and president of NPO Bioinformatics Japan.[1][2][3] He is one of Japan's most recognized and respected bioinformatics experts and is known for developing the KEGG bioinformatics database.[4]
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Born | (1948-01-23) January 23, 1948 (age 76) |
Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Known for | KEGG |
Awards | ISCB Fellow (2013) |
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Thesis | (1976) |
Website | www |
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In 2018 he was listed on a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "contributions to bioinformatics, specifically for his development of the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)".[5]