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Alex Bateman
Birth Name:Alexander George Bateman
Birth Date:9 October 1972
Thesis Title:Evolution of the structure and function of the immunoglobulin superfamily
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596466
Thesis Year:1997
Doctoral Advisor:Cyrus Chothia
Academic Advisors:Richard M. Durbin

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. He has led the development of the Pfam biological database[1] 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.[2] [3] [4]

Education

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)[5] [6] [7] on the evolution of the immunoglobulin protein superfamily.[8] [9] During this time, he also worked with Sean Eddy to discover novel protein domains using the HMMER software.[10]

Career and research

In 1997, Bateman joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to lead the development of the Pfam biological database. In 2003, he introduced the Rfam database of RNA families.[11] He was also involved in providing protein analysis for the publication of the human genome.[12]

As of 2012, he has been Head of Protein Sequence Resources at EMBL-EBI.[13]

Bateman has also been involved in promoting the use of Wikipedia within the science community[14] and in particular, community-based annotation of biological databases through Wikipedia, for example, annotation of the Rfam database through WikiProject RNA.[15]

Bateman served as Executive Editor of the journal Bioinformatics from 2004 to 2012 and has also served as Editor of Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Biology and Current Protocols in Bioinformatics.[16] In 2014, he was appointed one of the first Honorary Editors of Bioinformatics.[17] As of 2015, Bateman also serves on the ISCB Board of Directors.[18]

Awards and honours

Bateman was awarded the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award in bioinformatics.[19] [20] He became the third former member of Richard Durbin's lab to win the award, following Sean Eddy and Ewan Birney.[21] Bateman was elected an ISCB Fellow in 2017 by the International Society for Computational Biology.[22] [23]

Notes and References

  1. Finn . R. D.. Mistry . J.. Schuster-Böckler . B.. Griffiths-Jones . S.. Hollich . V.. Lassmann . T.. Moxon . S.. Marshall . M.. Khanna . A.. Durbin . R.. Eddy . S. R.. Sonnhammer . E. L.. Bateman . A.. Pfam: clans, web tools and services. Free full text. Nucleic Acids Research. 34. Database issue. D247–D251. Jan 2006 . 0305-1048. 16381856. 10.1093/nar/gkj149. 1347511.
  2. Logan . D. W. . Sandal . M. . Gardner . P. P. . Manske . M. . Magnus Manske. Bateman . A. . Alex Bateman. Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia . 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941 . . 6 . 9 . e1000941 . 2010 . 20941386. 2947980 . 2010PLSCB...6E0941L . free .
  3. Web site: Bateman group < Research < EMBL-EBI. 2013-10-01. European Bioinformatics Institute. https://web.archive.org/web/20131001121800/http://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/bateman.
  4. Burge . S. . Attwood . T. K. . Terri Attwood. Bateman . A. . Alex Bateman. Berardini . T. Z. . Cherry . M. . O'Donovan . C. . Xenarios . L. . Gaudet . P. . 10.1093/database/bar059 . Biocurators and Biocuration: Surveying the 21st century challenges . Database . 2012 . bar059 . 2012 . 22434828. 3308150 .
  5. Web site: 2021-06-08 . Family values – People – EMBO . 2023-07-14 . en-GB.
  6. 8880921. 2143528. 1996. Bateman . A . Alex Bateman. Members of the immunoglobulin superfamily in bacteria. Protein Science. 5. 9. 1939–41. Eddy. S. R.. Sean Eddy. Chothia. C. Cyrus Chothia. 10.1002/pro.5560050923.
  7. 8947027. 452426. 1996. Bateman. A. Outline structure of the human L1 cell adhesion molecule and the sites where mutations cause neurological disorders. The EMBO Journal. 15. 22. 6050–9. Jouet. M. MacFarlane. J. Du. J. S.. Kenwrick. S. Chothia. C. 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00993.x.
  8. PhD . Alexander George. Bateman . Evolution of the structure and function of the immunoglobulin superfamily . University of Cambridge . 1997. 879391333 . ethos.bl.uk.
  9. 9655353. 2144021. 1998. Bateman. A. Alex Bateman. Structure and distribution of pentapeptide repeats in bacteria. Protein Science. 7. 6. 1477–80. Murzin. A. G.. Teichmann. S. A.. Sarah Teichmann. 10.1002/pro.5560070625.
  10. Web site: Archive page: Dr Alex Bateman - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. 2014-10-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20141013222743/http://www.sanger.ac.uk/research/faculty/abateman/.
  11. 12520045. 165453. 2003. Griffiths-Jones. S. Rfam: An RNA family database. Nucleic Acids Research. 31. 1. 439–41. Bateman. A. Marshall. M. Khanna. A. Eddy. S. R. . 10.1093/nar/gkg006.
  12. 1. Lander. Eric S.. Linton. Lauren M.. Birren. Bruce. Nusbaum. Chad. Zody. Michael C.. Baldwin. Jennifer. Devon. Keri. Dewar. Ken. Doyle. Michael. FitzHugh. William. Funke. Roel. Gage. Diane. Harris. Katrina. Heaford. Andrew. Howland. John. Kann. Lisa. Lehoczky. Jessica. LeVine. Rosie. McEwan. Paul. McKernan. Kevin. Meldrim. James. Mesirov. Jill P.. Miranda. Cher. Morris. William. Naylor. Jerome. Raymond. Christina. Rosetti. Mark. Santos. Ralph. Sheridan. Andrew. Sougnez. Carrie. Stange-Thomann. Nicole. Stojanovic. Nikola. Subramanian. Aravind. Wyman. Dudley. Rogers. Jane. Sulston. John. Ainscough. Rachael. Beck. Stephan. Bentley. David. Burton. John. Clee. Christopher. Carter. Nigel. Coulson. Alan. Deadman. Rebecca. Deloukas. Panos. Dunham. Andrew. Dunham. Ian. Durbin. Richard. French. Lisa. Grafham. Darren. Gregory. Simon. Hubbard. Tim. Humphray. Sean. Hunt. Adrienne. Jones. Matthew. Lloyd. Christine. McMurray. Amanda. Matthews. Lucy. Mercer. Simon. Milne. Sarah. Mullikin. James C.. Mungall. Andrew. Plumb. Robert. Ross. Mark. Shownkeen. Ratna. Sims. Sarah. Waterston. Robert H.. Wilson. Richard K.. Hillier. LaDeana W.. McPherson. John D.. Marra. Marco A.. Mardis. Elaine R.. Fulton. Lucinda A.. Chinwalla. Asif T.. Pepin. Kymberlie H.. Gish. Warren R.. Chissoe. Stephanie L.. Wendl. Michael C.. Delehaunty. Kim D.. Miner. Tracie L.. Delehaunty. Andrew. Kramer. Jason B.. Cook. Lisa L.. Fulton. Robert S.. Johnson. Douglas L.. Minx. Patrick J.. Clifton. Sandra W.. Hawkins. Trevor. Branscomb. Elbert. Predki. Paul. Richardson. Paul. Wenning. Sarah. Slezak. Tom. Doggett. Norman. Cheng. Jan-Fang. Olsen. Anne. Lucas. Susan. Elkin. Christopher. Uberbacher. Edward. Frazier. Marvin. Gibbs. Richard A.. Muzny. Donna M.. Scherer. Steven E.. Bouck. John B.. Sodergren. Erica J.. Worley. Kim C.. Rives. Catherine M.. Gorrell. James H.. Metzker. Michael L.. Naylor. Susan L.. Kucherlapati. Raju S.. Nelson. David L.. Weinstock. George M.. Sakaki. Yoshiyuki. Fujiyama. Asao. Hattori. Masahira. Yada. Tetsushi. Toyoda. Atsushi. Itoh. Takehiko. Kawagoe. Chiharu. Watanabe. Hidemi. Totoki. Yasushi. Taylor. Todd. Weissenbach. Jean. Heilig. Roland. Saurin. William. Artiguenave. Francois. Brottier. Philippe. Bruls. Thomas. Pelletier. Eric. Robert. Catherine. Wincker. Patrick. Rosenthal. André. Platzer. Matthias. Nyakatura. Gerald. Taudien. Stefan. Rump. Andreas. Smith. Douglas R.. Doucette-Stamm. Lynn. Rubenfield. Marc. Weinstock. Keith. Lee. Hong Mei. Dubois. JoAnn. Yang. Huanming. Yu. Jun. Wang. Jian. Huang. Guyang. Gu. Jun. Hood. Leroy. Rowen. Lee. Madan. Anup. Qin. Shizen. Davis. Ronald W.. Federspiel. Nancy A.. Abola. A. Pia. Proctor. Michael J.. Roe. Bruce A.. Chen. Feng. Pan. Huaqin. Ramser. Juliane. Lehrach. Hans. Reinhardt. Richard. McCombie. W. Richard. de la Bastide. Melissa. Dedhia. Neilay. Blöcker. Helmut. Hornischer. Klaus. Nordsiek. Gabriele. Agarwala. Richa. Aravind. L.. Bailey. Jeffrey A.. Bateman. Alex. Batzoglou. Serafim. Birney. Ewan. Bork. Peer. Brown. Daniel G.. Burge. Christopher B.. Cerutti. Lorenzo. Chen. Hsiu-Chuan. Church. Deanna. Clamp. Michele. Copley. Richard R.. Doerks. Tobias. Eddy. Sean R.. Eichler. Evan E.. Furey. Terrence S.. Galagan. James. Gilbert. James G. R.. Harmon. Cyrus. Hayashizaki. Yoshihide. Haussler. David. Hermjakob. Henning. Hokamp. Karsten. Jang. Wonhee. Johnson. L. Steven. Jones. Thomas A.. Kasif. Simon. Kaspryzk. Arek. Kennedy. Scot. Kent. W. James. Kitts. Paul. Koonin. Eugene V.. Korf. Ian. Kulp. David. Lancet. Doron. Lowe. Todd M.. McLysaght. Aoife. Mikkelsen. Tarjei. Moran. John V.. Mulder. Nicola. Pollara. Victor J.. Ponting. Chris P.. Schuler. Greg. Schultz. Jörg. Slater. Guy. Smit. Arian F. A.. Stupka. Elia. Szustakowki. Joseph. Thierry-Mieg. Danielle. Thierry-Mieg. Jean. Wagner. Lukas. Wallis. John. Wheeler. Raymond. Williams. Alan. Wolf. Yuri I.. Wolfe. Kenneth H.. Yang. Shiaw-Pyng. Yeh. Ru-Fang. Collins. Francis. Guyer. Mark S.. Peterson. Jane. Felsenfeld. Adam. Wetterstrand. Kris A.. Myers. Richard M.. Schmutz. Jeremy. Dickson. Mark. Grimwood. Jane. Cox. David R.. Olson. Maynard V.. Kaul. Rajinder. Raymond. Christopher. Shimizu. Nobuyoshi. Kawasaki. Kazuhiko. Minoshima. Shinsei. Evans. Glen A.. Athanasiou. Maria. Schultz. Roger. Patrinos. Aristides. Morgan. Michael J.. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Nature. 15 February 2001. 409. 6822. 860–921. 10.1038/35057062. 11237011. free. 2027.42/62798. free.
  13. Web site: Alex Bateman < People & Groups < About us < EMBL-EBI. 2013-10-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20131001200201/http://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/alex-bateman. EBI.
  14. Alex. Bateman. 2012. Why scientists should be publishing on Wikipedia. Wired UK. https://web.archive.org/web/20120709062931/http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/05/ideas-bank/scientists-should-be-publishing-on-wikipedia. 2012-07-09.
  15. Daub . J. . Gardner . P. P. . Tate . J. . Ramsköld . D. . Manske . M. . Magnus Manske. Scott . W. G. . Weinberg . Z. . Griffiths-Jones . S. . Bateman . A. . 10.1261/rna.1200508 . The RNA WikiProject: Community annotation of RNA families . RNA . 14 . 12 . 2462–2464 . 2008 . 18945806. 2590952 .
  16. Web site: Alex Bateman Publons. Publons.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316092353/https://publons.com/author/259342/alex-bateman. 2015-03-16.
  17. Anon . 24642573. 2014. 15 years of "Bioinformatics". Bioinformatics. 30. 6. 747. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu076. free.
  18. Web site: Officers and board of Directors ISCB. 2014-07-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20140724002222/http://www.iscb.org/iscb-leadership-a-staff-/officers-and-board-directors. International Society for Computational Biology.
  19. Web site: Alex Bateman Wins 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award - Bio-IT World. www.bio-itworld.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20120814000046/http://www.bio-itworld.com/2010/04/01/franklin-award.html. 2012-08-14.
  20. Web site: Alex wins the Benjamin Franklin award!. Xfam Blog. https://web.archive.org/web/20100428005754/http://xfam.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/alex-wins-the-benjamin-franklin-award/. 2010-04-28. April 2010.
  21. Web site: Shraddha. Chakradhar. 2012. Heng Li Credits Durbin Pedigree in Accepting Franklin Award. 2013-03-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20130330132717/http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/04/26/12/Heng-Li-credits-Durbin-pedigree-Franklin-Award.html. bio-itworld.com.
  22. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170320114530/https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows . 2017-03-20 . ISCB Fellows . iscb.org . . Anon . 2017 . dead .
  23. Web site: February 13, 2017: The International Society for Computational Biology Names Seven Members as the ISCB Fellows Class of 2017. www.iscb.org. 13 February 2017.

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