1. Alexander George Bateman is a computational biologist and Head of Protein Sequence Resources at the European Bioinformatics Institute, part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Cambridge, UK.
11 Facts About Alex Bateman
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Alex Bateman has led the development of the Pfam biological database and introduced the Rfam database of RNA families.
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Alex Bateman has been involved in the use of Wikipedia for community-based annotation of biological databases.
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Alex Bateman received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1997, for research supervised by Cyrus Chothia at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology on the evolution of the immunoglobulin protein superfamily.
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In 1997, Alex Bateman joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to lead the development of the Pfam biological database.
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Alex Bateman was involved in providing protein analysis for the publication of the human genome.
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Alex Bateman has been involved in promoting the use of Wikipedia within the science community and in particular, community-based annotation of biological databases through Wikipedia, for example, annotation of the Rfam database through WikiProject RNA.
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Alex Bateman served as Executive Editor of the journal Bioinformatics from 2004 to 2012 and has served as Editor of Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Biology and Current Protocols in Bioinformatics.
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Alex Bateman was awarded the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award in bioinformatics.
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Alex Bateman became the third former member of Richard Durbin's lab to win the award, following Sean Eddy and Ewan Birney.
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Alex Bateman was elected an ISCB Fellow in 2017 by the International Society for Computational Biology.