Rolf Apweiler is a senior scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is a molecular biology research institution supported by 20 European countries and Australia as associate member state. EMBL was created in 1974 and is an intergovernmental organisation funded by public research money from its member states...

-European Bioinformatics Institute

European Bioinformatics Institute

The European Bioinformatics Institute is a centre for research and services in bioinformatics, and is part of European Molecular Biology Laboratory...

 (EMBL-EBI) and joint head of the Protein And Nucleic Acids (PANDA) group with Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney is a senior scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute and joint head of the Protein And Nucleic Acids group with Rolf Apweiler. The PANDA group is responsible for the widely used Ensembl genome browser, and highly-cited research on, for example, sequence analysis tools...

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Apweiler has been working on the Swiss-Prot protein sequence database since 1987, and in 1994 he became leader of the Swiss-Prot group. He has been joint head of the Protein

Protein

Proteins are biochemical compounds consisting of one or more polypeptides typically folded into a globular or fibrous form, facilitating a biological function. A polypeptide is a single linear polymer chain of amino acids bonded together by peptide bonds between the carboxyl and amino groups of...

 and Nucleotide

Nucleotide

Nucleotides are molecules that, when joined together, make up the structural units of RNA and DNA. In addition, nucleotides participate in cellular signaling , and are incorporated into important cofactors of enzymatic reactions...

 Data (PANDA) Group since 2007. The PANDA group is involved in several international collaborations like the Human Proteome Organization

Human Proteome Organization

The Human Proteome Organization is an international consortium of national proteomics research associations, government researchers, academic institutions, and industry partners...

 (HUPO) Proteomics Standards Initiative

Proteomics Standards Initiative

The Proteomics Standards Initiative is a working group of HUPO. It aims to define data standards for proteomics in order to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification.PSI focuses on the following subjects:...

. Apweiler is a member of the Nomenclature Committee of IUBMB, the FlyBase

FlyBase

FlyBase is an online bioinformatics database and the primary repository of genetic and molecular data for the insect family Drosophilidae. For the most extensively studied species and model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, a wide range of data are presented in different formats...

 advisory board, the committee of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the advisory board of the Human Proteome Resource (HPR).

Apweiler is an editor of the FEBS Journal

FEBS Journal

FEBS Journal is a scientific journal published by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies . Before 2005, this journal was known as the European Journal of Biochemistry, which itself was the new name of Biochemische Zeitschrift that was adopted in 1967...

 and a section editor of BMC Bioinformatics

BMC Bioinformatics

BMC Bioinformatics is an online open access scientific journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed research in bioinformatics. The journal is part of a series of BMC journals published by the UK-based publisher BioMed Central....

. He has published more than 200 papers and gained his PhD

PHD

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 in Biochemistry

Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

 from the University of Heidelberg.