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email: bork@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
- Personal data:German, born in Berlin on May 4, 1963, married, two children
- Background: Biochemistry (Diploma, Leipzig 1988; PhD, Leipzig/Berlin 1990);
Biophysics (Habilitation, Berlin 1995)
- Current position:
senior group leader (bioinformatics) at the EMBL (Heidelberg);
joint coordinator of the EMBL Structural and Computational Biology unit;
visiting group leader at the MDC (Berlin-Buch)
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Advisor: Current and former member of various SABs and evaluation panels (academia + industry)
Cofounder of LION bioscience AG (now SYGNIS Pharma AG), Cellzome AG, Anadys Pharmaceuticals Inc. and biobyte solutions GmbH
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Scientific interests: prediction of protein function at different spatial scales,
protein and genome evolution (iTOL), protein domain analysis,
comparative genome and proteome analysis, bridging genotype and phenotype
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Some Projects: genome annotation,
comparative analysis of protein modules (SMART),
biochemical pathways and networks (STRING),
networks of chemicals and proteins (STITCH)
bioinformatics applications in molecular medicine
comparative metagenomics
- List of group publications
- Our group home page including group members, group alumni, tools etc
