Minoru Kanehisa

Minoru Kanehisa
Born (1948-01-23) January 23, 1948 (age 76)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Known forKEGG
AwardsISCB Fellow (2013)
Scientific career
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Institutions
Thesis (1976)
Websitewww.kanehisa.jp/en/kanehisa.html

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]

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]

  1. ^ "Kanehisa Laboratories - Minoru Kanehisa". www.kanehisa.jp. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  2. ^ Minoru Kanehisa publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Minoru Kanehisa at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E. (22 August 2013). "International Society for Computational Biology Welcomes Its Newest Class of Fellows". PLOS Computational Biology. 9 (8): e1003199. Bibcode:2013PLSCB...9E3199F. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003199. PMC 3749946. PMID 23990772.
  5. ^ "Citation Laureates 2018" (PDF). Clarivate Analytics.

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