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Philip E.
Bourne PhD Skaggs
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Accuracy
is Everything - Father and Son Landing at Catalina
Synopsis
Philip E. Bourne PhD is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences at the University of California San
Diego, Associate Director of the Protein
Data Bank and an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham
Institute. He is a Past President of the International
Society for Computational Biology. He is an elected fellow of the American
Medical Informatics Association. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology
and on the Editorial Board of IEEE Trends in Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics and a long standing member of the National Science Foundation,
National Institutes of Health and Genome Canada panels responsible for
reviewing proposals relating to computational biology. He is a past member of
the US National Committee for Crystallography, past chairman of the
International Union of Crystallography Computing Commission IUCrCC and past chairman of
the American Crystallography
Association (ACA) Computing Committee.
Recent awards include the Flinders University Convocation Medal for Outstanding Achievement 2004 and the Sun Microsystems Convergence Award 2002.
Bourne's professional interests focus on relevant
biological and educational outcomes derived from computation and scholarly
communication. This implies algorithms, text mining, machine learning, metalanguages,
biological databases, and visualization applied to problems in evolution, cell
signaling, apoptosis, systems biology and scientific dissemination. He has
published over 200 papers and 4
books, one of which sold over 150,000 copies. He has co-founded 4
companies: ViSoft Inc., Protein Vision Inc., a company distributing independent
films for free and most recently SciVee.
Bourne is committed to furthering the free dissemination of
science through new
models of publishing and better integration and subsequent dissemination of
data and results which as far as possible should be freely available to
all.
Personal interests are squash, hiking, skiing, flying and motor bikes.
This page was last updated June 2008.