Teresa K. Attwood

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Teresa Attwood (Photo: Linda Bussey; 2012)

Teresa K. "Terri" Attwood (born November 20, 1959 ) is a British professor of bioinformatics in the faculties of computer science and life sciences at the University of Manchester and visiting scholar at the European Institute for Bioinformatics (EMBL-EBI). She works as a biocurator in the field of protein analysis and protein sequencing .

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Attwood received her Bachelor of Science degree in biophysics from the University of Leeds in 1982 . There she worked in research until 1993 and received her doctorate in 1984. In 1993 she received a research fellowship from the Royal Society and moved to University College London . On a scholarship until 2002, Attwood moved to Manchester in 1999, where she received the professorship in bioinformatics in 2001.

Your research area is protein analysis. After Amos Bairoch created the PROSITE database , Attwood worked with him to standardize the classification and annotation of protein families. Together with Rolf Apweiler , she received a grant from the European Union in 1997 to develop the InterPro database .

In the field of molecular biology , Attwood created the PRINTS database for peptide mass fingerprinting . With Stephen Robert Pettifer she developed the tool UTOPIA (User-friendly tools for operating Informatics Applications) for protein analysis.

Attwood is currently chair of EMBnet , the European network of molecular biologists, and holds other offices and positions. On her initiative, GOBLET (Global Organization for Teaching, Education and Training in Bioinformatics) was founded in 2012 , where she has been chairwoman of the board since 2016.

Fonts (selection)

  • Chromonic mesophases. (Dissertation) 1984.

Co-author

  • Introduction to Bioinformatics. 1999.
  • Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution. 2005.
  • Bioinformatics Challenges at the Interface of Biology and Computer Science: Mind the Gap. 2016.
  • An active registry for bioinformatics web services.

Co-editor

  • Biochemical Journal.
  • Database. The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.
  • Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.
  • Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modeling.
  • EMBnet.journal.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TK Attwood, P. Bradley, DR Flower, A. Gaulton, N. Maudling, AL Mitchell, G. Moulton, A. Nordle, K. Paine, P. Taylor, A. Uddin, C. Zygouri: PRINTS and its automatic supplement, prePRINTS. In: Nucleic acids research. Volume 31, number 1, January 2003, pp. 400-402, doi : 10.1093 / nar / gkg030 , PMID 12520033 , PMC 165477 (free full text).
  2. ↑ Complete list of her publications.
personal data
SURNAME Attwood, Teresa K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Attwood, Terri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British bioinformatician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1959