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Masaru Tomita

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Masaru Tomita, born in 1957, is a Japanese scientist in the fields of systems biology and computer science, best known as the founder of the E-Cell simulation system and the inventor of the GLR parser algorithm. The first actual implementation of GLR was described in a 1984 paper by Tomita, and the technique has also been referred to as a parallel parser. His father was the composer and synthesiser player Isao Tomita.

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    described in a 1984 paper by Masaru Tomita
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