Senior Team Leader, Protein sequence resources
Home institute
EMBL-EBI
URL of home institute
Highest qualification
PhD
ORCID
0000-0002-6982-4660
Topics
Computational characterisation of bacterial host interacting proteins.
Investigation of protein domain composition, discovery of novel protein domains, correlated mutation analysis and sequence analysis of host binding domains.
Relevant challenge areas
Communicable disease
Sustainable food production
Protection of biodiversity
Bio
Dr Alex Bateman joined EMBL-EBI as the Head of Protein Sequence Resources in 2012. He took over from Rolf Apweiler as the PI for the UniProt grant (an international collaboration between EBI, SIB and PIR) and has oversight for protein and ncRNA related databases at EMBL-EBI. Prior to that, he managed the production of numerous popular biological databases such as Pfam and Rfam at the Sanger Institute. He was formerly a member of and Chairman of the ISB's Executive Committee. He was also Executive Editor for Bioinformatics and Editor of NAR's database issue.
Country of residence
United Kingdom
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