Peter D. Karp is director of the Bioinformatics Research Group at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.
BioCyc databases combine genome, metabolic pathway, and regulatory information for thousands of organisms.
Karp received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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.