Peter D. Karp is director of the
Bioinformatics
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Research Group at
SRI International
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in
Menlo Park, California
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.
Karp leads the development of the BioCyc database collection (which includes the highly curated EcoCyc and MetaCyc
The MetaCyc database is one of the largest metabolic pathways and enzymes databases currently available. The data in the database is manually curated from the scientific literature, and covers all domains of life. MetaCyc has extensive information ...
databases). BioCyc databases combine genome, metabolic pathway, and regulatory
information for thousands of organisms.
Education
Karp received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania
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. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University
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. His dissertation developed qualitative reasoning and machine learning techniques for hypothesis generation in molecular biology. Karp was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Library of Medicine
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Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health. I ...
.
Honors and recognition
He was elected a fellow
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of the International Society for Computational Biology
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(ISCB) in 2012 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology
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and bioinformatics. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
References
Living people
American bioinformaticians
SRI International people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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