Lawrence Hunter

Lawrence Hunter
Larry Hunter in 2002
Born	Lawrence Hunter (1961-01-18) January 18, 1961 United States
Alma mater	Yale University
Known for	Computational Biology, Artificial intelligence
Awards	Engelmore Prize for Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2003 (presented by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence) Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics, 2002- Regent's Award for Scholarship and Technical Achievement1994 Meritorious Service Award, National Library of Medicine, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Excellence in Research Award, University of Colorado School of Medicine Dept. of Pharmacology, 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Colorado School of Medicine Dept. of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, 2004
Scientific career
Fields	Computational Biology, Artificial Intelligence
Institutions	University of Colorado School of Medicine
Doctoral advisor	Roger Schank
Doctoral students	Imran Shah Lorraine Tanabe Ronald Taylor Anis Karimpour-Fard Steve Russell Sonia Leach

Lawrence Hunter is Director of the Center for Computational Biology and of the Computational Bioscience Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is an internationally known scholar, focused on computational biology, knowledge-driven extraction of information from the primary biomedical literature, the semantic integration of knowledge resources in molecular biology, and the use of knowledge in the analysis of high-throughput data, as well as for his foundational work in computational biology, which led to the genesis of the major professional organization in the field and two international conferences.

Career

Hunter completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1989, Knowledge Acquisition Planning: Gaining Expertise Through Experience, on diagnosis of lung cancer from x-ray data, under the guidance of Roger Schank. Faced with a choice between careers in the main applications of artificial intelligence---game programming and defense work—Hunter chose to create a new discipline, bioinformatics. From 1989 to 2000, Hunter worked as a computer scientist and section chief for National Institutes of Health sections devoted to statistical and bioinformatic research. He was an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University from 1991 through 2000 and an associate professor in the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine from 2000 to 2008. He was promoted to professor in 2008.

Organizational work

ISCB

In 1997, Hunter founded what has become the largest professional organization in computational biology and bioinformatics, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

Conferences

Hunter was also a founder of three successful international conferences in bioinformatics, the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing and the Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference. Hunter cofounded and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Molecular Mining Corporation from 1997 to 2003. Hunter is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the winner of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence’s 2003 Engelmore Prize for Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Influence

Hunter is credited with being one of the founding fathers of bioinformatics. Throughout his career Hunter has researched and directed research groups investigating the development and application of advanced computational techniques for biomedicine to high-throughput assays, particularly the application of statistical and knowledge-based techniques to the analysis of high-throughput data and of biomedical texts. He has proposed neurobiologically and evolutionarily informed computational models of cognition, and ethical issues related to computational bioscience.

Works

• The Processes of Life: An Introduction to Molecular Biology
• Rindflesch TC, Tanabe L, Weinstein JN, Hunter L (2000). "EDGAR: extraction of drugs, genes and relations from the biomedical literature". Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing: 517–28. PMC 2709525. PMID 10902199.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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• Planning to learn The Proceedings of The Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA., July 1990, pp. 26–34, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.
• Hunter L, Cohen KB (2006). "Biomedical language processing: what's beyond PubMed?". Molecular Cell. 21 (5): 589–94. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2006.02.012. PMC 1702322. PMID 16507357. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Hunter, Lawrence (1993). Artificial intelligence and molecular biology. Menlo Park, Calif: AAAI Press. ISBN 0-262-58115-9.
• Baumgartner WA, Cohen KB, Fox LM, Acquaah-Mensah G, Hunter L (2007). "Manual curation is not sufficient for annotation of genomic databases". Bioinformatics. 23 (13): i41–8. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm229. PMC 2516305. PMID 17646325. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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• Leach SM, Tipney H, Feng W; et al. (2009). "Biomedical discovery acceleration, with applications to craniofacial development". PLoS Computational Biology. 5 (3): e1000215. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000215. PMC 2653649. PMID 19325874. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

External links

• Hunter's web page