Minoru Kanehisa, a specially appointed professor of the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, was selected from Japan for the 2018 Clarivate Analytics Citation Honor Award selected by the global scientific information company Clarivate Analytics.Every year, researchers who are considered to be in the Nobel Prize class are selected from the analysis of citation data of academic papers, and 16 foreign researchers other than Professor Kanehisa received the award.
According to Claribate Analytics, Professor Kanehisa was recognized to have developed "KEGG", a database that can be used for drug discovery and medical treatment by decoding the functions of biological systems from big data of life science such as all genetic information.
Professor Kanehisa also noted that "KEGG is also bioinformatics (life information technology) for finding usefulness leading to drug discovery and medical treatment, and there is an aspect of finding empirical rules from data and exploring the principles of life. I want you to do it. "
The Clarivate Analytics Citation Laureate Award is the former Thomson Reuters Citation Honor Award, which consists of the same categories as the four Nobel Prizes in Medicine / Physiology, Physics, Chemistry, and Economics. We are selecting researchers who are likely to receive the award.
Twenty-six Japanese researchers have received the Clarivate Analytics Citation Laureate Award in the past.Of these, Shinya Yamanaka, director of the iPS Research Institute of Kyoto University, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 26, Professor Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara received the Physics Award in 2012, and Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The professor received the Medical and Physiology Award in 2014.
reference:[Clarivate Analytics] Clarivate Analytics Announces "Citation Honor Award" 2018 Japan winners 1
