Minoru Kanehisa

Minoru Kanehisa ( Japanese 金 久 實 , Kanehisa Minoru ; born January 23, 1948 in Nagasaki ) is a Japanese bioinformatician at the University of Kyoto . He is best known for developing the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG).

Kanehisha studied physics at the University of Tokyo (graduating in 1970), where he also received a D.Sc. As a postdoctoral fellow , he worked at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Los Alamos National Laboratory . As a research assistant, he worked at the National Cancer Institute from 1982 , before receiving a first professorship at the Institute for Chemical Research at the University of Kyoto in 1985 . In 1987 he received a full professorship. From 1991 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2012 he also held a professorship at the Human Genome Center of the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo. From 2001 to 2011 he was director of the Institute for Bioinformatics at Kyoto University.

Minoru Kanehisa was the founding director of the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics from 1999 to 2003. Since 2012 he has been the technical director of Pathway Solutions Inc. , since 2009 President of NPO Bioinformatics Japan .

Kanehisa has (as of September 2018) an h-index of 81. Due to the number of citations, Clarivate Analytics has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( Clarivate Citation Laureates ) since 2018 .

Web links

• Kanehisha Laboratories and CV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minoru Kanehisa - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.de. Retrieved September 20, 2018 . 
2. ^ Clarivate Analytics Reveals Annual Forecast of Future Nobel Prize Recipients. In: clarivate.com. Clarivate Analytics, September 20, 2018, accessed September 20, 2018 .