The Bourne Laboratory A Place for Structural Bioinformatics Located within the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Department of Pharmacology, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California San Diego (UCSD) Points of Interest: Research  | Publications | People | Courses | Databases | Software |Grants | Invited Talks | Directions to the Lab. | Journal Club | Group Photo | Lab report 2006 | Rotation and PhD Projects

Affiliations: Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | Pharmacology | SDSC | The Burnham Institute | The Keck Graduate Institute Major Projects: PDB | PLoS Comp. Biol.  | SPAM | IEDB

Synopsis of Our Activities

Our broad goal is to undertake in silico bioinformatics-related research and education (with emphasis on structural bioinformatics) to improve our understanding of living systems. This understanding covers research into evolution, protein form and function, disease relationships and immunology. Along the way we develop resources, for example, the RCSB Protein Data Bank and the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB), for use by the community. We view these resources as being as important as disseminating our science through the scientific literature. 

We firmly support open access to the scientific literature through our work with the Public Library of Science and free access to our software.

Philip E. Bourne PhD