Alex Bateman
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Alex Bateman speaking at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in Berlin in 2013
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| Born | Alexander George Bateman 1972 (age 44–45) |
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| Thesis | Evolution of the structure and function of the immunoglobulin superfamily (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Cyrus Chothia |
| Other academic advisors | Richard M. Durbin |
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Alexander George Bateman is a computational biologist and Head of Protein Sequence Resources at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Cambridge, UK. He has led the development of the Pfam biological database and introduced the Rfam database of RNA families. He has also been involved in the use of for community-based annotation of biological databases.
Bateman received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Newcastle University in 1994. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1997, for research supervised by Cyrus Chothia on the evolution of the immunoglobulin protein superfamily. During this time, he also worked with Sean Eddy to discover novel protein domains using the HMMER software.
In 1997, Bateman joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to lead the development of the Pfam biological database. In 2003, he introduced the Rfam database of RNA families. He was also involved in providing protein analysis for the publication of the human genome.
As of 2012, he has been Head of Protein Sequence Resources at EMBL-EBI.
Bateman served as Executive Editor of the journal Bioinformatics from 2004 to 2012 and has also served as Editor of Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Biology and . In 2014, he was appointed one of the first Honorary Editors of Bioinformatics. As of 2015, Bateman also serves on the ISCB Board of Directors.
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