Philip Bourne

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::summary Physical chemist and computational biologist ::

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Field	Value
name	Phil Bourne
birth_name	Philip Eric Bourne
image	Phil_E_Bourne.jpg
image_size	150px
caption	Philip Eric Bourne
birth_date
field	Data Science
Computational Biology
Scholarly communication
Bioinformatics
work_institutions	{{Plainlist
alma_mater	Flinders University (PhD)
thesis_title	Crystal structure analyses : metal complexes of biological interest and the stereochemistry of substituted phonylbicyclooctanes
thesis_url	https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/51739530
thesis_year	1979
known_for	{{Plainlist
* Unix for VMS Users<ref name	vms/
last1	Berman
author-link1	Helen M. Berman
last2	Westbrook
last3	Feng
last4	Gilliland
last5	Bhat
last6	Weissig
last7	Shindyalov
last8	Bourne
author-link8	Philip Bourne
title	The Protein Data Bank
doi	10.1093/nar/28.1.235
journal	Nucleic Acids Research
volume	28
issue	1
pages	235–242
year	2000
pmid	10592235
pmc	102472
* SciVee<ref name	scivee/}}
awards	{{Plainlist
* AAAS Fellow (2011)<ref name	aaas/
* ISCB Fellow (2011)<ref name	iscb/
* Jim Gray e-Science award (2010)<ref name	jimgray/
* Ben Franklin Award (2009)<ref name	franklin/}}
spouse
children	{{Plainlist
website
notable_students	Werner G. Krebs
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• University of Virginia
• National Institutes of Health
• University of California, San Diego
• Columbia University
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• Unix for VMS Users
• PLOS Computational Biology
• Protein Data Bank{{Cite journal | last1 = Berman | first1 = H. M. | author-link1 = Helen M. Berman | last2 = Westbrook | first2 = J. | last3 = Feng | first3 = Z. | last4 = Gilliland | first4 = G. | last5 = Bhat | first5 = T. | last6 = Weissig | first6 = H. | last7 = Shindyalov | first7 = I. | last8 = Bourne | first8 = P. | author-link8 = Philip Bourne | title = The Protein Data Bank | doi = 10.1093/nar/28.1.235 | journal = Nucleic Acids Research | volume = 28 | issue = 1 | pages = 235–242 | year = 2000 | pmid = 10592235 | pmc =102472
• SciVee}} | influences = | influenced = | awards = {{Plainlist|
• AAAS Fellow (2011)
• ISCB Fellow (2011)
• Jim Gray e-Science award (2010)
• Ben Franklin Award (2009)}} | religion = | footnotes = | signature = | spouse = | children = {{Plainlist|
• Scott Bourne (b. 1985)
• Melanie Bourne (b. 1997)}} | website = | notable_students = Werner G. Krebs

Philip Eric Bourne (born 1953) is an Australian bioinformatician, non-fiction writer, and was the first associate director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health, where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative, and formerly Associate Vice Chancellor at UCSD. His papers are highly cited, and he has an h-index above 80.

Education

Bourne was trained as a physical chemist in the mid to late 1970s and obtained his PhD in 1979 at the Flinders University.

Career and research

After his PhD, Bourne moved to the University of Sheffield to do postdoctoral research during 1979–1981, followed by a move to Columbia University, New York, in 1981. In 1995 he moved to University of California, San Diego, where he was a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology. In 2014, he moved to NIH to become its associate director for Data Science. In January 2017, it was announced that he had accepted a position as director of University of Virginia's Data Science Institute.

He is known for writing the book Unix for VMS Users (1990){{cite book | last = Bourne | first = Phil E | title = Unix for VMS Users | publisher = Digital Press Newton, MA, USA | year = 1990 | isbn = 1-55558-034-3 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/unixforvmsusers00bour and for being co-developer of the Combinatorial Extension algorithm for the three-dimensional alignment of protein structures, together with I. Shindyalov (1998). In 1999 he became co-director of the Protein Data Bank. He was president of the ISCB (2002–2003). He is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association since 2002. He is founding Editor in Chief of PLoS Computational Biology (2005-). In 2007 he co-founded SciVee. Bourne is an editor of the popular Ten Simple Rules series of editorials published in the PLoS Computational Biology journal. He has served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Industrial Alliances and a professor of pharmacology at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is an advisor to the Hypothes.is project and associate director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative.

Publications

Bourne is author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters and editor of the Structural Bioinformatics textbook.{{cite book | last1= Bourne | first1= Philip E. | last2= Weissig | first2= Helga | title= Structural Bioinformatics | publisher= John Wiley & Sons | year= 2003 | last1= Gu | first1= Jenny | last2 = Bourne | first2 = Philip E. | title= Structural Bioinformatics |edition= 2nd | publisher= Wiley-Blackwell |date=March 2009 | isbn= 978-0-470-18105-8 | last1= Anderson | first1= Philip O. | last2= Bourne | first2 = Philip E. | title= Pharmacy Informatics | publisher= CRC Press |date=December 2009 | isbn= 978-1-4200-7175-7

• Structural Bioinformatics 1st edition
• Structural Bioinformatics 2nd edition
• Pharmacy Informatics
• Unix for Vms Users

Awards and honors

Bourne was elected Fellow of the AAAS under Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2011 and Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2011. In 2010 he won Microsoft's Jim Gray e-Science award and in 2009 won the Benjamin Franklin Award (2009).

Personal life

Bourne has been married since 1983 to Roma Chalupa and they have two children: Scott Bourne (1985-) and Melanie Bourne (1997-). His interests include motorcycles, flying, and hiking

References

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References

1. (6 July 2017). "Philip e. Bourne".
2. He has contributed to textbooks and is a strong supporter of open-access literature and software. His diverse interests have spanned [[structural biology]], [[medical informatics]], [[information technology]], structural [[bioinformatics]], [[scholarly communication]] and [[pharmaceutical science]]s.{{Scopus id}}
3. [https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/philip-e-bourne page at the University of Virginia]
4. [http://www.sdsc.edu/~bourne/ bournes old website]
5. {{Google scholar id
6. Bourne, Philip Eric. (1979). "Crystal structure analyses : metal complexes of biological interest and the stereochemistry of substituted phonylbicyclooctanes". Flinders University.
7. (1980). "Helix packing and subunit conformation in horse spleen apoferritin". Nature.
8. (11 January 2017). "UVA Names NIH Researcher as New Director of Data Science Institute".
9. (1998). "Protein structure alignment by incremental combinatorial extension (CE) of the optimal path". Protein Engineering Design and Selection.
10. (2000). "The Protein Data Bank". Nucleic Acids Research.
11. "ISCB — Past Presidents".
12. (2003). "American College of Medical Informatics Fellows and International Associates, 2002". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
13. (2007). "Reinventing Scholarly Communication for the Electronic Age". CTWatch Quarterly.
14. [http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fissue.pcol.v03.i01 Ten Simple Rules]
15. "Archived copy".
16. http://www.sdsc.edu/pb/ The Bourne lab web page
17. http://www.sdsc.edu/~bourne/CV.pdf Philip E. Bourne Ph.D. CV
18. [http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is official website]
19. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131210113852/http://nih.gov/news/health/dec2013/od-09.htm NIH Names Dr. Philip E. Bourne First Associate Director for Data Science]
20. (2014). "The National Institutes of Health's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative: capitalizing on biomedical big data". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
21. "Dr. Phil Bourne elected AAAS Fellow under Pharmaceutical Sciences". Pharmacy.ucsd.edu.
22. "ISCB fellows".
23. (2010-10-18). "Philip E. Bourne wins Microsoft's 2010 Jim Gray eScience Award". Eurekalert.org.
24. "Benjamin Franklin Award". Bioinformatics.org.
25. "The Bourne Commendation: Open Access Evangelist Wins 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award". Bio-itworld.com.
26. [http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/OFL/ OFL. Philip Bourne. Travel Blog]

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