Team Leader, Sequence Families
Home institute
EMBL-EBI
URL of home institute
Highest qualification
PhD
ORCID
0000-0001-8626-2148
Topics
Analysing metagenomics datasets from different ecological niches to understand the taxonomic and functional repertoire present and adaptation
Recovery of genomes from metagenomic datasets, identification and investigation of novel proteins and pathways
Curation of Pfam entries for specific genomes of agricultural or disease relevance
Projects available from
Relevant challenge areas
Communicable disease
Sustainable food production
Protection of biodiversity
Bio
Dr Rob Finn leads EMBL-EBI’s Sequence Families team, which is responsible for the InterPro, Pfam, Rfam and RNAcentral data resources. The team also looks after EMBL-EBI's fast-growing Metagenomics data service. Rob also has a small research group that probes the functions of microbial 'dark matter'.
Rob joined EMBL-EBI from the Janelia Research Campus in the US, where he led a group that designed fast, web-based, interactive protein-sequence searches and annotations. Between 2001 and 2010, he was the project leader for Pfam at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK. Rob’s academic background is in microbiology and he holds a PhD in biochemistry from Imperial College, London.
Country of residence
United Kingdom
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