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#Masatoshi Nei
The 2013 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences, Dr. Masatoshi Nei, passed away at the age of 92. He has devised statistical methods for handling genetic information such as the “neighbor-joining method” and “Nei’s genetic distance,” which have contributed significantly to the quantitative analysis in evolutionary biology. He received the Kyoto Prize for his “Research...
New exhibition featuring Dr. Masatoshi Nei, the 2013 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences opened at the University of Miyazaki. Dr. Nei, an evolutionary biologist, proposed what is now called “Nei’s Genetic Distance,” which quantifies differences in the vestiges of evolution that remain within proteins and DNA in his 1972 paper. This innovative idea has...
Approx. half century has passed since “Nei’s Genetic Distance” was announced in 1972. The method that Dr. Masatoshi Nei developed facilitated a quantitative and statistical analysis based on molecular data for the evolutional phenomena (how long ago the populations diverged on the evolutionary tree of life) which had been nothing but estimation or hypothesis. His...