Rolf Apweiler Explained

Rolf Apweiler
Thesis Title:	Characterization of the effect of (-) - 2- (4-methylphenoxy) -7- (4-chlorophenyl) -heptanoic acid on insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance of FA-FA and FA -? - Rats
Thesis Year:	1994
Thesis Url:	http://d-nb.info/941652920

Rolf Apweiler is a director of European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)^[1] with Ewan Birney.^[2]

Education

Apweiler gained his PhD in biochemistry from Heidelberg University.^{[3] [4]}

Research

Apweiler has been working on the Swiss-Prot^[5] protein sequence database since 1987, and in 1994 he became leader of the Swiss-Prot group. He has been joint head of the Protein and Nucleotide Data (PANDA) Group since 2007. The PANDA group is involved in several international collaborations like the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Proteomics Standards Initiative. Apweiler is a member of the Nomenclature Committee of IUBMB, the FlyBase advisory board, the committee of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the advisory board of the Human Proteome Resource (HPR).

Apweiler is an editor of the FEBS Journal and a section editor of BMC Bioinformatics and has published more than 200 papers.^[6]

Awards and honours

Apweiler was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2012^[7] and elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2015.^[8]

References

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Notes and References

1. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/rolf-apweiler Rolf Apweiler page at the EBI
2. 16141072. 2005. Carninci. P. The transcriptional landscape of the mammalian genome. Science. 309. 5740. 1559–63. Kasukawa. T. Katayama. S. Gough. J. Julian Gough (scientist). Frith. M. C.. Maeda. N. Oyama. R. Ravasi. T. Lenhard. B. Wells. C. Kodzius. R. Shimokawa. K. Bajic. V. B.. Brenner . S. E. . Steven E. Brenner. Batalov. S. Forrest. A. R.. Zavolan. M. Davis. M. J.. Wilming. L. G.. Aidinis. V. Allen. J. E.. Ambesi-Impiombato. A. Apweiler. R. Rolf Apweiler. Aturaliya. R. N.. Bailey. T. L.. Bansal. M. Baxter. L. Beisel. K. W.. Bersano. T. Bono. H. 29. 10.1126/science.1112014. 2005Sci...309.1559F. 8712839.
3. PhD . Rolf. Apweiler . Charakterisierung der Wirkung von (-)-2-(4-Methylphenoxy)-7-(4-Chlorophenyl)-Heptansäure auf die Insulinsensitivität und Glucosetoleranz von fa-fa- und FA-?-Ratten . University of Heidelberg . 1994 . 75488289.
4. http://pir.uniprot.org/help/apweiler Rolf Apweiler page at UniProt.org
5. Boeckmann . B. . Bairoch . A. . Apweiler . R. . Blatter . M. C. . Estreicher . A. . Gasteiger . E. . Martin . M. J. . Michoud . K. . O'Donovan . C. . Phan . I. . Pilbout . S. . Schneider . M. . The SWISS-PROT protein knowledgebase and its supplement TrEMBL in 2003 . 10.1093/nar/gkg095 . Nucleic Acids Research . 31 . 1 . 365–370 . 2003 . 12520024. 165542 .
6. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=rolf+apweiler Rolf Apweiler in Google Scholar
7. Web site: The EMBO Pocket Directory. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316002020/http://www.embo.org/documents/members/The_EMBO_Pocket_Directory.pdf. 2015-03-16. European Molecular Biology Organization.
8. Web site: Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2015. 20 February 2015.