Amos Bairoch
Amos Bairoch (born November 22, 1957 in Clamart ) is a Swiss bioinformatician.
Life
Bairoch studied and obtained his doctorate (1990) at the University of Geneva (licentiate in chemistry and biochemistry 1981, diploma 1983), at which he later became a professor (Maitre-Assistant 1987, Professeur adjoint from 2001). He was one of the founders of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, SIB) in Geneva and heads the CALIPHO group there.
He made pioneering contributions from bioinformatics to proteomics . While still a student, he developed PC / Gene (software for analyzing protein and nucleic acid sequences , which was also marketed commercially and which later became Swiss-Prot). From 1986 he developed the protein sequence database Swiss Prot / UniProtKB, which was initially annotated by hand, in an extension in cooperation with the EMBL the recording was automated. In 1988 he and his colleagues created the database for protein families and domains PROSITE and in 1993 with Ron Appel the expert system and portal ExPASy (the first World Wide Web portal for protein sequences). He also initiated the enzyme database ENZYME .
In 2004 he received the European Latsis Prize and in 2010 the Otto Naegeli Prize .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bairoch, Amos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss bioinformatician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clamart |