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david june 2013 lipman -lrb- right -rrb- with paul ginsparg in accomplishment u.s. national academy of sciences by a senior scientist award member of the bioinformatics evolution computational biology sequence comparison methods comparative genomics molecular national buffalo , the state university of new york center for biotechnology information brown university university at stephen altschul june 2013 mark boguski june 2013 paul ginsparg and david lipman.jpg david j. lipman
 david j. lipman brown of new york university university at buffalo , the state university
david j. lipman

david j. lipman is an american biologist who since 1989 has been the director of the national center for biotechnology information -lrb- ncbi -rrb- 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 .
