Ewan Birney
Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute
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John Frederick William Birney CBE FRS FMedSci is joint director of EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire and deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Wikipedia
Place of birth: Paddington, London, United Kingdom
Education: Balliol College (1996), Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Oxford, and more
Awards: Overton Prize (2005), Benjamin Franklin Award (2005), and EMBO Membership (2012)
Affiliation: EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Research interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Computational-Biology, and more
Known for: GeneSweep; ENCODE consortium; Ensembl genome database project;
Thesis: Sequence alignment in bioinformatics (2000)