10 Facts About Philip Bourne

Philip Eric Bourne was born on 1953 and is an Australian bioinformatician, non-fiction writer, and businessman.

Philip Bourne is currently Stephenson Chair of Data Science and Director of the School of Data Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and was the first associate director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health, where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative, and formerly Associate Vice Chancellor at UCSD.

Philip Bourne has contributed to textbooks and is a strong supporter of open-access literature and software.

Philip Bourne's papers are highly cited, and he has an h-index above 80.

Philip Bourne is known for writing the book Unix for VMS Users and for being co-developer of the Combinatorial Extension algorithm for the three-dimensional alignment of protein structures, together with I Shindyalov.

Philip Bourne is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association since 2002.

Philip Bourne is founding Editor in Chief of PLoS Computational Biology.

Philip Bourne is an editor of the popular Ten Simple Rules series of editorials published in the PLoS Computational Biology journal.

Philip Bourne has served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Industrial Alliances and a professor of pharmacology at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.

Philip Bourne is author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters and editor of the Structural Bioinformatics textbook.