Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney
CBE FRS FMedSci
Ewan Birney in 2014
Born
John Frederick William Birney[8][9][10]

(1972-12-06) 6 December 1972 (age 51)[11][12][13][14]
Paddington, London,[13] England
Other namesEwan Birney
John Birney[7]
EducationEton College
Alma mater
Known for
Spouse
Barley Laycock
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(m. 2003)​
[13][18]
ChildrenTwo[13]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisSequence alignment in bioinformatics (2000)
Doctoral advisorRichard Durbin[6]
Websitewww.ebi.ac.uk/people/person/ewan-birney Edit this at Wikidata

John Frederick William Birney (known as Ewan Birney) CBE FRS FMedSci[19][20] (born 6 December 1972)[21][11][13][14] is joint director of EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),[22][23][24] in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire and deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).[25] He also serves as non-executive director of Genomics England,[26] chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)[27][28] and honorary professor of bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge.[29] Birney has made significant contributions to genomics, through his development of innovative bioinformatics and computational biology tools.[1] He previously served as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.[30]

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  2. ^ "ISCB Newsletter 8-2 Dr. Ewan Birney Named as the 2005 Overton Prize Winner!". Archived from the original on 22 October 2015.
  3. ^ "The EMBO Pocket Directory" (PDF). European Molecular Biology Organization. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
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  8. ^ Anon (4 November 1993). "John Frederick William Birney". Oxford University Gazette. 124 (4305). Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 16 June 2015.
  9. ^ Anon (2015). "Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660-2015". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015.
  10. ^ Ewan Birney's ORCID 0000-0001-8314-8497
  11. ^ a b Anon (2017). "So, I am Ewan Birney" (PDF). genome.gov. National Human Genome Research Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2017.
  12. ^ Anon (2016). "John Frederick William BIRNEY, Eagle Genomics Limited". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016.
  13. ^ a b c d e Anon (2015). "Birney, Dr John Frederick William, (Ewan)". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281970. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  14. ^ a b Hopkin, Karen (June 2005). "Bring Me Your Genomes: The Ewan Birney Story". The Scientist. 19 (11): 60. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
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  16. ^ ENCODE Project Consortium; Birney E; Stamatoyannopoulos JA; Dutta A; Guigó R; Gingeras TR; Margulies EH; Weng Z; Snyder M; Dermitzakis ET; et al. (2007). "Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project". Nature. 447 (7146): 799–816. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..799B. doi:10.1038/nature05874. PMC 2212820. PMID 17571346.
  17. ^ Hubbard, T.; Barker, D.; Birney, E.; Cameron, G.; Chen, Y.; Clark, L.; Cox, T.; Cuff, J.; Curwen, V.; Down, T.; Durbin, R.; Eyras, E.; Gilbert, J.; Hammond, M.; Huminiecki, L.; Kasprzyk, A.; Lehvaslaiho, H.; Lijnzaad, P.; Melsopp, C.; Mongin, E.; Pettett, R.; Pocock, M.; Potter, S.; Rust, A.; Schmidt, E.; Searle, S.; Slater, G.; Smith, J.; Spooner, W.; Stabenau, A. (2002). "The Ensembl genome database project". Nucleic Acids Research. 30 (1): 38–41. doi:10.1093/nar/30.1.38. PMC 99161. PMID 11752248.
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  20. ^ Anon (2015). "Dr Ewan Birney FRS FMedSci". acmedsci.ac.uk. London: Academy of Medical Sciences. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015.
  21. ^ NHGRI's Oral History Collection: Interview with Ewan Birney on YouTube
  22. ^ Ewan Birney publications from Europe PubMed Central
  23. ^ Parkhill, J; Birney, E; Kersey, P (2010). "Genomic information infrastructure after the deluge". Genome Biology. 11 (7): 402. doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-7-402. PMC 2926780. PMID 20670392.
  24. ^ Kellis, M; Wold, B; Snyder, M. P.; Bernstein, B. E.; Kundaje, A; Marinov, G. K.; Ward, L. D.; Birney, E; Crawford, G. E.; Dekker, J; Dunham, I; Elnitski, L. L.; Farnham, P. J.; Feingold, E. A.; Gerstein, M; Giddings, M. C.; Gilbert, D. M.; Gingeras, T. R.; Green, E. D.; Guigo, R; Hubbard, T; Kent, J; Lieb, J. D.; Myers, R. M.; Pazin, M. J.; Ren, B; Stamatoyannopoulos, J. A.; Weng, Z; White, K. P.; Hardison, R. C. (2014). "Defining functional DNA elements in the human genome". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (17): 6131–6138. Bibcode:2014PNAS..111.6131K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1318948111. PMC 4035993. PMID 24753594.
  25. ^ Heard, Edith (2020). "Restructure of senior management". embl.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
  26. ^ Anon (2016). "Professor Ewan Birney appointed to the Genomics England Board". genomicsengland.co.uk. Genomics England. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017.
  27. ^ Ewan Birney on Twitter Edit this at Wikidata
  28. ^ Birney, Ewan (2017). "About Ewan Birney". ewanbirney.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  29. ^ Anon (12 December 2014). "Honorary Professors". Cambridge University Reporter. CXLV (5). University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015.
  30. ^ Anon (2015). "Sanger Faculty". Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.