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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 RCSB Protein
Data Bank and an Adjunct Professor at the Sanford Burnham
Institute. He is a Past President of the International
Society for Computational Biology. He is an elected fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Society
for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the American Medical Informatics
Association (AMIA). He is the co-founder and inaugural and current
Editor-in-Chief of the open access
journal PLoS Computational Biology 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.
Awards include: the Jim Gray eScience Award (2010), the Benjamin Franklin Award (2009), 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 drug discovery, evolution, cell signaling, apoptosis, systems
biology and scientific dissemination. He has published over 200 papers and 5 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 November 2011.