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British bioinformatician
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.
[2]
[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]
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)
[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]
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.
[9]
[23] He was also involved in providing protein analysis for the publication of the human genome.
[23]
[24]
As of 2012, he has been Head of Protein Sequence Resources at EMBL-EBI.
[25]
Bateman has also been involved in promoting the use of Wikipedia within the science community
[26] and in particular, community-based annotation of biological databases through Wikipedia, for example, annotation of the Rfam database through
WikiProject RNA .
[27]
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 .
[5]
[6] In 2014, he was appointed one of the first Honorary Editors of Bioinformatics .
[28] As of 2015, Bateman also serves on the ISCB Board of Directors.
[29]
Awards and honours
Bateman was awarded the 2010
Benjamin Franklin Award in bioinformatics.
[30]
[31] He became the third former member of
Richard Durbin 's lab to win the award, following
Sean Eddy and
Ewan Birney .
[30]
[3]
Bateman was elected an
ISCB Fellow in 2017 by the
International Society for Computational Biology .
[1]
[32]
Alex Bateman (left) and Cyrus Chothia (right), at the ISMB conference in Dublin in 2015
References
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b Anon (2017).
"ISCB Fellows" . iscb.org .
International Society for Computational Biology . Archived from
the original on 20 March 2017.
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b
Alex Bateman publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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b Chakradhar, Shraddha (2012).
"Heng Li Credits Durbin Pedigree in Accepting Franklin Award" . bio-itworld.com. Archived from
the original on 30 March 2013.
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Alex Bateman at
Library of Congress
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"Alex Bateman: Senior Team Leader Protein Sequence Resources and Group Leader Bateman Research Group" . Uniprot.org. Archived from
the original on 16 March 2015.
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"Alex Bateman Publons" . Publons.com. Archived from
the original on 16 March 2015.
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Bateman, A. ; Coin, L.;
Durbin, R. ; Finn, R. D.; Hollich, V.; Griffiths-Jones, S.; Khanna, A.; Marshall, M.; Moxon, S.; Sonnhammer, E. L.; Studholme, D. J.; Yeats, C.;
Eddy, S. R. (2004).
"The Pfam protein families database" .
Nucleic Acids Research . 32 (Database issue): 138D–1141.
doi :
10.1093/nar/gkh121 .
ISSN
0305-1048 .
PMC
308855 .
PMID
14681378 .
^ Sammut, S. J.; Finn, R. D.; Bateman, A (2008).
"Pfam 10 years on: 10,000 families and still growing" . Briefings in Bioinformatics . 9 (3): 210–9.
doi :
10.1093/bib/bbn010 .
PMID
18344544 .
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a
b Griffiths-Jones, S; Bateman, A; Marshall, M; Khanna, A; Eddy, S. R. (2003).
"Rfam: An RNA family database" . Nucleic Acids Research . 31 (1): 439–41.
doi :
10.1093/nar/gkg006 .
PMC
165453 .
PMID
12520045 .
^ Griffiths-Jones, S; Grocock, R. J.; Van Dongen, S; Bateman, A; Enright, A. J. (2006).
"MiRBase: MicroRNA sequences, targets and gene nomenclature" . Nucleic Acids Research . 34 (Database issue): D140-4.
doi :
10.1093/nar/gkj112 .
PMC
1347474 .
PMID
16381832 .
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Alex Bateman at
DBLP Bibliography Server
^ 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. (January 2006).
"Pfam: clans, web tools and services" (Free full text) . Nucleic Acids Research . 34 (Database issue): D247–D251.
doi :
10.1093/nar/gkj149 .
ISSN
0305-1048 .
PMC
1347511 .
PMID
16381856 .
^ Logan, D. W.; Sandal, M.; Gardner, P. P.;
Manske, M. ;
Bateman, A. (2010).
"Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia" .
PLOS Computational Biology . 6 (9): e1000941.
Bibcode :
2010PLSCB...6E0941L .
doi :
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941 .
PMC
2947980 .
PMID
20941386 .
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"Bateman group < Research < EMBL-EBI" . European Bioinformatics Institute. Archived from
the original on 1 October 2013.
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Alex Bateman publications from
Europe PubMed Central
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Alex Bateman's publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Burge, S.;
Attwood, T. K. ;
Bateman, A. ; Berardini, T. Z.; Cherry, M.; O'Donovan, C.; Xenarios, L.; Gaudet, P. (2012).
"Biocurators and Biocuration: Surveying the 21st century challenges" . Database . 2012 : bar059.
doi :
10.1093/database/bar059 .
PMC
3308150 .
PMID
22434828 .
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"Family values – People – EMBO" . 8 June 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2023 .
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Bateman, A ;
Eddy, S. R. ;
Chothia, C (1996).
"Members of the immunoglobulin superfamily in bacteria" . Protein Science . 5 (9): 1939–41.
doi :
10.1002/pro.5560050923 .
PMC
2143528 .
PMID
8880921 .
^ Bateman, A; Jouet, M; MacFarlane, J; Du, J. S.; Kenwrick, S; Chothia, C (1996).
"Outline structure of the human L1 cell adhesion molecule and the sites where mutations cause neurological disorders" . The EMBO Journal . 15 (22): 6050–9.
doi :
10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00993.x .
PMC
452426 .
PMID
8947027 .
^ Bateman, Alexander George (1997).
Evolution of the structure and function of the immunoglobulin superfamily . ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
OCLC
879391333 .
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Bateman, A ; Murzin, A. G.;
Teichmann, S. A. (1998).
"Structure and distribution of pentapeptide repeats in bacteria" .
Protein Science . 7 (6): 1477–80.
doi :
10.1002/pro.5560070625 .
PMC
2144021 .
PMID
9655353 .
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"Archive page: Dr Alex Bateman - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute" . Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Archived from
the original on 13 October 2014.
^ Lander, Eric S.; et al. (15 February 2001).
"Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome" . Nature . 409 (6822): 860–921.
doi :
10.1038/35057062 .
hdl :
2027.42/62798 .
PMID
11237011 .
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"Alex Bateman < People & Groups < About us < EMBL-EBI" . EBI. Archived from
the original on 1 October 2013.
^ Bateman, Alex (2012).
"Why scientists should be publishing on Wikipedia" .
Wired UK . Archived from
the original on 9 July 2012.
^ Daub, J.; Gardner, P. P.; Tate, J.; Ramsköld, D.;
Manske, M. ; Scott, W. G.; Weinberg, Z.; Griffiths-Jones, S.; Bateman, A. (2008).
"The RNA WikiProject: Community annotation of RNA families" . RNA . 14 (12): 2462–2464.
doi :
10.1261/rna.1200508 .
PMC
2590952 .
PMID
18945806 .
^ Anon (2014).
"15 years of "Bioinformatics" " . Bioinformatics . 30 (6): 747.
doi :
10.1093/bioinformatics/btu076 .
PMID
24642573 .
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"Officers and board of Directors ISCB" . International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from
the original on 24 July 2014.
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"Alex Bateman Wins 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award - Bio-IT World" . www.bio-itworld.com. Archived from
the original on 14 August 2012.
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"Alex wins the Benjamin Franklin award!" . Xfam Blog. April 2010. Archived from
the original on 28 April 2010.
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"February 13, 2017: The International Society for Computational Biology Names Seven Members as the ISCB Fellows Class of 2017" . www.iscb.org . Retrieved 13 February 2017 .
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