Richard M. Durbin
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Born | Richard Michael Durbin 30 December 1960[15] |
Nationality | British |
Education | Highgate School |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
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Spouse | [15] |
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Doctoral students | Ewan Birney[4] |
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Website | www |
Richard Michael Durbin
Education
Durbin was educated at
Career and research
Durbin's early work included developing the primary instrument software for one of the first
He then led the informatics for the Caenorhabditis elegans genome project,[33] and alongside Jean Thierry-Mieg developed the genome database AceDB, which evolved into the WormBase web resource. Following this he played an important role in data collection for and interpretation of the human genome sequence.[34]
He has developed numerous methods for computational
More recently Durbin has returned to sequencing and has developed low coverage approaches to population genome sequencing, applied first to yeast,[40][41] and has been one of the leaders in the application of new sequencing technology to study human genome variation.[42][43] Durbin currently co-leads the international 1000 Genomes Project to characterise variation down to 1% allele frequency as a foundation for human genetics.
Awards and honours
Durbin was a joint winner of the
Durbin's certificate of election for the Royal Society reads:
Durbin is distinguished for his powerful contribution to computational biology. In particular, he played a leading role in establishing the new field of bioinformatics. This allows the handling of biological data on an unprecedented scale, enabling genomics to prosper. He led the analysis of the C. elegans genome, and with Thierry-Mieg developed the database software AceDB. In the international genome project he led the analysis of protein coding genes. He introduced key computational tools in software and data handling. His Pfam database allowed the identification of domains in new protein sequences; it used hidden Markov models to which approach generally he brought rigour and which led to covariance models for RNA sequence.[45]
Personal life
Durbin is the son of James Durbin and is married to Julie Ahringer, a scientist at the Gurdon Institute. They have two children.[15]
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- ^ a b "Professor Richard Durbin FRS Fellow". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015.
- ^ anon. "Durbin, Richard". sanger.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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- ^ Richard M. Durbin at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ "Honorary Professors". Cambridge University Reporter. CXLV (5). University of Cambridge. 12 December 2014. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015.
- ^ Anon. "Durbin Group — Department of Genetics". gen.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ Anon (27 September 2017). "Professor Richard Durbin — Department of Genetics". gen.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ "Dr Richard Durbin – Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute". Archived from the original on 28 February 2012.
- ^ Durbin, Richard M.'s publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ Richard Durbin archive collection Richard Durbin entry in the Wellcome Library archive.
- ^ Richard M. Durbin publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ^ Richard M. Durbin's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
- ^ "The BioInformer nr. 1, 1997 – Interview with Dr. Richard Durbin". Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
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