David J. Lipman

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. Dr. Lipman received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his M.D. in 1980 from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also leads an intramural research program, including groups led by Stephen Altschul (another BLAST...