Philip Bourne
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Philip Eric Bourne is a professor of pharmacology at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
at the University of California, San Diego
(UCSD).
He is author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters and editor of the Structural Bioinformatics and Pharmacy Informatics
textbooks and he is a strong supporter of open access literature and software. His diverse interests have spanned structural biology
, medical informatics, information technology
, structural bioinformatics
, scholarly communication
and pharmaceutical sciences.
. He moved to the University of Sheffield
for his PostDoc during 1979-1981, followed by a move to New York, Columbia University
in 1981. In 1995 he moved to University of California, San Diego, where he is currently Professor at the Department of Pharmacology.
He is known for the book Unix
for VMS
Users (1990) and for being co-developer of the Combinatorial Extension algorithm for the three dimensional alignment of protein structures
, together with I. Shindyalov (1998). Since 1999 he is co-director of the Protein Data Bank
. He was director of the ISCB (2002–2003). He is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association
since 2002.
He is founding Editor in Chief of PLoS Computational Biology
(2005-).
In 2007 he co-founded SciVee
and has been elected Fellow of the AAAS
under Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2011 and fellow of the ISCB in 2011. Bourne is an editor of the popular Ten Simple Rules series of editorials published in PLoS Computational Biology. He is an advisor to the Hypothes.is
project.
award and in 2009 won the Benjamin Franklin Award
(2009).
Skaggs School of Pharmacy
The Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego is a graduate-level pharmacy school offering five educational programs: *Doctor of Pharmacy degree awarded in a four-year program...
at the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
(UCSD).
He is author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters and editor of the Structural Bioinformatics and Pharmacy Informatics
textbooks and he is a strong supporter of open access literature and software. His diverse interests have spanned structural biology
Structural biology
Structural biology is a branch of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics concerned with the molecular structure of biological macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids, how they acquire the structures they have, and how alterations in their structures affect their function...
, medical informatics, information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
, structural bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
, scholarly communication
Scholarly communication
Scholarly communication is an umbrella term used to describe the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community and beyond....
and pharmaceutical sciences.
Career
He has been trained as a physical chemist in the mid to late 1970s and obtained his PhD in 1979 at the The Flinders University of South AustraliaFlinders University
Flinders University, , is a public university in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the South Australian coastline in the early 19th century.The university has established a reputation as a leading research...
. He moved to the University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...
for his PostDoc during 1979-1981, followed by a move to New York, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in 1981. In 1995 he moved to University of California, San Diego, where he is currently Professor at the Department of Pharmacology.
He is known for the book Unix
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
for VMS
VMS
- Communication and transportation :* Voice Mail System, automated telephone messaging* Video Messaging Service , video messaging for 3G handsets* VMS MobiFone, one of the largest mobile phone operators in Vietnam...
Users (1990) and for being co-developer of the Combinatorial Extension algorithm for the three dimensional alignment of protein structures
Structural alignment
Structural alignment attempts to establish homology between two or more polymer structures based on their shape and three-dimensional conformation. This process is usually applied to protein tertiary structures but can also be used for large RNA molecules...
, together with I. Shindyalov (1998). Since 1999 he is co-director of the Protein Data Bank
Protein Data Bank
The Protein Data Bank is a repository for the 3-D structural data of large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids....
. He was director of the ISCB (2002–2003). He is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association
American Medical Informatics Association
AMIA, formerly known as the American Medical Informatics Association, is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the development and application of biomedical and health informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.- History :AMIA is the...
since 2002.
He is founding Editor in Chief of PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS Computational Biology is a peer-reviewed computational biology journal established in 2005 and published by the nonprofit Public Library of Science in association with the International Society for Computational Biology. Its Editor in Chief is Philip Bourne...
(2005-).
In 2007 he co-founded SciVee
SciVee
SciVee is a science video sharing website where researchers can upload, view and share science video clips and connect them to scientific literature, posters and slides...
and has been elected Fellow of the AAAS
Fellow of the AAAS
Fellow of the AAAS is an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to distinguished persons who are members of the Association. Fellows are elected annually by the AAAS Council for "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications [which] are...
under Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2011 and fellow of the ISCB in 2011. Bourne is an editor of the popular Ten Simple Rules series of editorials published in PLoS Computational Biology. He is an advisor to the Hypothes.is
Hypothes.is
Hypothes.is is an open-source software project that aims to collect comments about statements made in any web-accessible content, and filter and rank those comments to assess each statement's credibility....
project.
Awards
In 2010 he won Microsoft's Jim Gray e-ScienceE-Science
E-Science is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term sometimes includes technologies that enable distributed collaboration, such as the Access Grid...
award and in 2009 won the Benjamin Franklin Award
Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics)
The Benjamin Franklin Award is an award for Open Access in the Life Sciences presented by the Bioinformatics Organization-Laureates:*2002 - Michael B. Eisen*2003 - Jim Kent*2004 - Lincoln D. Stein*2005 - Ewan Birney*2006 - Michael Ashburner...
(2009).