Alexander George Bateman is a computational biologist and Head of Protein Sequence Resources at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Cambridge, UK.[2][11] He has led the development of the Pfam biological database[12] and introduced the Rfam database of RNA families. He has also been involved in the use of Wikipedia for community-based annotation of biological databases.[13][14][15][16][17]
In 1997, Bateman joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to lead the development of the Pfam biological database. In 2003, he introduced the Rfam database of RNA families.[9][23] He was also involved in providing protein analysis for the publication of the human genome.[23][24]
As of 2012, he has been Head of Protein Sequence Resources at EMBL-EBI.[25]
Bateman has also been involved in promoting the use of Wikipedia within the science community[26] and in particular, community-based annotation of biological databases through Wikipedia, for example, annotation of the Rfam database through WikiProject RNA.[27]
Bateman served as Executive Editor of the journal Bioinformatics from 2004 to 2012 and has also served as Editor of Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Biology and Current Protocols in Bioinformatics.[5][6] In 2014, he was appointed one of the first Honorary Editors of Bioinformatics.[28] As of 2015, Bateman also serves on the ISCB Board of Directors.[29]
^ a bAlex Bateman publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ a bChakradhar, Shraddha (2012). "Heng Li Credits Durbin Pedigree in Accepting Franklin Award". bio-itworld.com. Archived from the original on 30 March 2013.
^ a b"Alex Bateman: Senior Team Leader Protein Sequence Resources and Group Leader Bateman Research Group". Uniprot.org. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
^ a b"Alex Bateman Publons". Publons.com. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
^Bateman, A.; Coin, L.; Durbin, R.; Finn, R. D.; Hollich, V.; Griffiths-Jones, S.; Khanna, A.; Marshall, M.; Moxon, S.; Sonnhammer, E. L.; Studholme, D. J.; Yeats, C.; Eddy, S. R. (2004). "The Pfam protein families database". Nucleic Acids Research. 32 (Database issue): 138D–1141. doi:10.1093/nar/gkh121. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 308855. PMID 14681378.
^Sammut, S. J.; Finn, R. D.; Bateman, A (2008). "Pfam 10 years on: 10,000 families and still growing". Briefings in Bioinformatics. 9 (3): 210–9. doi:10.1093/bib/bbn010. PMID 18344544.
^ a bGriffiths-Jones, S; Bateman, A; Marshall, M; Khanna, A; Eddy, S. R. (2003). "Rfam: An RNA family database". Nucleic Acids Research. 31 (1): 439–41. doi:10.1093/nar/gkg006. PMC 165453. PMID 12520045.
^Griffiths-Jones, S; Grocock, R. J.; Van Dongen, S; Bateman, A; Enright, A. J. (2006). "MiRBase: MicroRNA sequences, targets and gene nomenclature". Nucleic Acids Research. 34 (Database issue): D140-4. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj112. PMC 1347474. PMID 16381832.
^Alex Bateman at DBLP Bibliography Server
^Finn, R. D.; Mistry, J.; Schuster-Böckler, B.; Griffiths-Jones, S.; Hollich, V.; Lassmann, T.; Moxon, S.; Marshall, M.; Khanna, A.; Durbin, R.; Eddy, S. R.; Sonnhammer, E. L.; Bateman, A. (January 2006). "Pfam: clans, web tools and services" (Free full text). Nucleic Acids Research. 34 (Database issue): D247–D251. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj149. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 1347511. PMID 16381856.
^Logan, D. W.; Sandal, M.; Gardner, P. P.; Manske, M.; Bateman, A. (2010). "Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia". PLOS Computational Biology. 6 (9): e1000941. Bibcode:2010PLSCB...6E0941L. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941. PMC 2947980. PMID 20941386.
^"Bateman group < Research < EMBL-EBI". European Bioinformatics Institute. Archived from the original on 1 October 2013.
^Alex Bateman's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^Burge, S.; Attwood, T. K.; Bateman, A.; Berardini, T. Z.; Cherry, M.; O'Donovan, C.; Xenarios, L.; Gaudet, P. (2012). "Biocurators and Biocuration: Surveying the 21st century challenges". Database. 2012: bar059. doi:10.1093/database/bar059. PMC 3308150. PMID 22434828.
^"Family values – People – EMBO". 8 June 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
^Bateman, A; Eddy, S. R.; Chothia, C (1996). "Members of the immunoglobulin superfamily in bacteria". Protein Science. 5 (9): 1939–41. doi:10.1002/pro.5560050923. PMC 2143528. PMID 8880921.
^Bateman, A; Jouet, M; MacFarlane, J; Du, J. S.; Kenwrick, S; Chothia, C (1996). "Outline structure of the human L1 cell adhesion molecule and the sites where mutations cause neurological disorders". The EMBO Journal. 15 (22): 6050–9. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00993.x. PMC 452426. PMID 8947027.
^Bateman, Alexander George (1997). Evolution of the structure and function of the immunoglobulin superfamily. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 879391333.
^Bateman, A; Murzin, A. G.; Teichmann, S. A. (1998). "Structure and distribution of pentapeptide repeats in bacteria". Protein Science. 7 (6): 1477–80. doi:10.1002/pro.5560070625. PMC 2144021. PMID 9655353.
^ a b c"Archive page: Dr Alex Bateman - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute". Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014.
^Lander, Eric S.; et al. (15 February 2001). "Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome". Nature. 409 (6822): 860–921. doi:10.1038/35057062. hdl:2027.42/62798. PMID 11237011.
^"Alex Bateman < People & Groups < About us < EMBL-EBI". EBI. Archived from the original on 1 October 2013.
^Bateman, Alex (2012). "Why scientists should be publishing on Wikipedia". Wired UK. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012.
^Daub, J.; Gardner, P. P.; Tate, J.; Ramsköld, D.; Manske, M.; Scott, W. G.; Weinberg, Z.; Griffiths-Jones, S.; Bateman, A. (2008). "The RNA WikiProject: Community annotation of RNA families". RNA. 14 (12): 2462–2464. doi:10.1261/rna.1200508. PMC 2590952. PMID 18945806.
^Anon (2014). "15 years of "Bioinformatics"". Bioinformatics. 30 (6): 747. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu076. PMID 24642573.
^"Officers and board of Directors ISCB". International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 24 July 2014.
^ a b"Alex Bateman Wins 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award - Bio-IT World". www.bio-itworld.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2012.
^"Alex wins the Benjamin Franklin award!". Xfam Blog. April 2010. Archived from the original on 28 April 2010.
^"February 13, 2017: The International Society for Computational Biology Names Seven Members as the ISCB Fellows Class of 2017". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 13 February 2017.