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Biography
Philip E. Bourne PhD is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, Co-director of the Protein Data Bank and an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute and the Keck Graduate Institute. He is a Past President of the International Society for Computational Biology. He is an elected fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology, on the Advisory Board of Biopolymers and on the Editorial Boards of Proteins: Structure Function and Bioinformatics, Biosilico and IEEE Trends in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and a long standing member of the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health panels responsible for reviewing proposals relating to biological infrastructure and bioinformatics. He is a past member of the US National Committee for Crystallography, past chairman of the International Union of Crystallography Computing Commission IUCrCC and past chairman of the American Crystallography Association (ACA) Computing Committee.

Recent awards include the Flinders University Convocation Medal for Outstanding Achievement 2004 and the Sun Microsystems Convergence Award 2002.

Bourne's professional interests focus on bioinformatics and structural bioinformatics in particular. This implies algorithms, metalanguages, biological databases, biological query languages and visualization with special interest in evolution, cell signaling and apoptosis. He has published over 180 papers and 4 books, one of which sold over 120,000 copies. He has co-founded 3 companies: ViSoft Inc., Protein Vision Inc. and a company distributing independent films for free.

Bourne is committed to furthering the free dissemination of science through new models of publishing and better integration and subsequent dissemination of data and results which as far as possible should be freely available to all.

Personal interests are squash, hiking, skiing, flying and motor bikes.