Name: Raymond Ripp
Date and Place of Birth
PhD computer science
22 april 1952, Strasbourg, France
IGBMC Institut de Génomique et de Biologie Moléculaire et
Cellulaire 1, rue Laurent Fries 67404 Illkirch Strasbourg France
Scientific Qualifications  1970 Baccalauréat E, lycée Couffignal Strasbourg France
 1975 Diplome of Advanced Studies « Complexité des
algorithmes et reconnaissance de formes » Université de
Paris VI , Paris France
 1991 PhD in computer science “Animation graphique et
interactivité” Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg France

1975 - 1977 Theoretical informatics at University of
Research Experience
Sarrebrück Germany (with Prof. Günter Hotz)
Posts
 1978 – 1980 Robotics and automation at Ecole Nationale
Supérieure d’Electricité et de Mécanique ENSEM Nancy
France (with Prof. René Husson)
 1980 -1983 Industrial automation at SAIT -société Alsacienne
d’Installation Technique, Saverne France. (for MarsAlimentaire, Elly Lilly, Houilères du Bassin de Lorraine, etc.)
 1983 -1991 Lecturer in computer science at Université Louis
Pasteur Strasbourg France
 1991 - CNRS Research Engineer at IBMC and IGBMC
Strasbourg France. Programmer in graphics and biological
applications, System and Network Manager
 Computer Scientist BioInformatics and Genomics in
Structural Biology and Genomics Department at IGBMC
Work address
Research interests
Key publications (6)
Bioinformatics, genomics, computer science.
1. Schluter A, Fourcade S, Ripp R, Mandel JL, Poch O, Pujol A.
The Evolutionary Origin of Peroxisomes: An ER-Peroxisome
Connection Mol Biol Evol. 2006 Apr;23(4):838-845.
2. Perrodou E, Deshayes C, Muller J, Schaeffer C, Van Dorsselaer
A, Ripp R, Poch O, Reyrat JM, Lecompte O. ICDS database:
interrupted CoDing sequences in prokaryotic genomes.Nucleic
Acids Res. 2006 Jan 1;34(Database issue)
3. Busso D, Poussin-Courmontagne P, Rose D, Ripp R, Litt A,
Thierry JC, Moras D. Structural genomics of eukaryotic targets
at a laboratory scale.J Struct Funct Genomics. 2005;6(2-3):81-8
4. Thompson JD, Koehl P, Ripp R, Poch O. BAliBASE 3.0: Latest
developments of the multiple sequence alignment benchmark.
Proteins. 2005 Oct 1;61(1):127-36.
5. Plewniak F, Bianchetti L, Brelivet Y, Carles A, Chalmel F,
Lecompte O, Mochel T, Moulinier L, Muller A, Muller J, Prigent
V, Ripp R, Thierry JC, Thompson JD, Wicker N, Poch O.
PipeAlign: A new toolkit for protein family analysis.Nucleic Acids
Res. 2003 Jul 1;31(13):3829-32
6. Cohen GN, Barbe V, Flament D, Galperin M, Heilig R, Lecompte
O, Poch O, Prieur D, Querellou J, Ripp R, Thierry JC, Van der
Oost J, Weissenbach J, Zivanovic Y, Forterre P. An integrated
analysis of the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon
Pyrococcus abyssi. Mol Microbiol. 2003 Mar;47(6):1495-512.
7. Lecompte O, Ripp R, Thierry JC, Moras D, Poch O.
Comparative analysis of ribosomal proteins in complete
genomes: an example of reductive evolution at the domain
scale.Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Dec 15;30(24):5382-90.
8. Thompson JD, Plewniak F, Ripp R, Thierry JC, Poch O.
Towards a reliable objective function for multiple sequence
alignments. J Mol Biol. 2001 Dec 7;314(4):937-51
9. Lecompte O, Ripp R, Puzos-Barbe V, Duprat S, Heilig R,
Dietrich J, Thierry JC, Poch O. Genome evolution at the genus
level: comparison of three complete genomes of
hyperthermophilic archaea. Genome Res. 2001 Jun;11(6):98193.
10. Andersen G, Busso D, Poterszman A, Hwang JR, Wurtz JM,
Ripp R, Thierry JC, Egly JM, Moras D.The structure of cyclin H:
common mode of kinase activation and specific features. EMBO
J. 1997 Mar 3;16(5):958-67.