Alex Bateman

Dr Alex Bateman joined EMBL-EBI as the Head of Protein Sequence Resources in 2012. He took over from Rolf Apweiler as the Principal Investigator for the UniProt grant (an international collaboration between EMBL-EBI, SIB and PIR) and has oversight for protein and ncRNA related databases at EMBL-EBI. Prior to that he managed the production of numerous popular biological databases such as Pfam and Rfam at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. He was formerly a member of, and Chairman of the ISB's Executive Committee. He was also Executive Editor for Bioinformatics and Editor of NAR's database issue.