Alex Bateman
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9 October 1972[1]
- Newcastle University (BSc)
- University of Cambridge (PhD)
- Benjamin Franklin Award (2010)
- ISCB Fellow (2017)[8]
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| Born | Alexander George Bateman 9 October 1972[1] |
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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[10] |
| Website | www |
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.[9][11] He has led the development of the Pfam biological database[12] and introduced the Rfam database of RNA families. He has also been involved in the use of Wikipedia for community-based annotation of biological databases.[13][14][15][16][17]
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 at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)[18][19][20] on the evolution of the immunoglobulin protein superfamily.[21][22] During this time, he also worked with Sean Eddy to discover novel protein domains using the HMMER software.[23]
