Rolf Apweiler
{{Short description|German bioinformatician}}
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| caption = Rolf Apweiler in 2015.
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- Heidelberg University
- University of Bath{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707232435/https://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2015/era-of-innovation/index.cfm?pg=speakers_bio&speakername=APWEILER|archive-date=2015-07-07|url=https://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2015/era-of-innovation/index.cfm?pg=speakers_bio&speakername=APWEILER|title=Dr. Rolf Apweiler, European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI (ELIXIR)|publisher=europa.eu}}}}
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| thesis_title = Characterization of the effect of (-) - 2- (4-methylphenoxy) -7- (4-chlorophenyl) -heptanoic acid on insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance of FA-FA and FA -? - Rats
| thesis_year = 1994
| thesis_url = http://d-nb.info/941652920
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- Swiss-Prot
- TrEMBL
- UniProt{{cite web |url=http://sciencewatch.com/dr/fbp/2008/08junfbp/08junfbpApweiler/ |title=Rolf Apweiler - ScienceWatch.com |access-date=27 June 2011}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Bairoch | first1 = A. | last2 = Apweiler | first2 = R. | last3 = Wu | first3 = C. H. | last4 = Barker | first4 = W. C. | last5 = Boeckmann | first5 = B. | last6 = Ferro | first6 = S. | last7 = Gasteiger | first7 = E. | last8 = Huang | first8 = H. | last9 = Lopez | first9 = R. | last10 = Magrane | first10 = M. | last11 = Martin | first11 = M. J. | last12 = Natale | first12 = D. A. | last13 = O'Donovan | first13 = C. | last14 = Redaschi | first14 = N. | last15 = Yeh | first15 = L. S. | title = The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) | doi = 10.1093/nar/gki070 | journal = Nucleic Acids Research | volume = 33 | issue = Database issue | pages = D154–D159 | year = 2004 | pmid = 15608167| pmc =540024 }}
- InterPro{{Cite journal
| last1 = Hunter | first1 = S.
| last2 = Apweiler | first2 = R.
| author-link2 = Rolf Apweiler
| first3 = T. | last3 = Attwood
| author-link3 = Terri Attwood
| last4 = Bairoch | first4 = A.
| author-link4 = Amos Bairoch
| first5 = A. | last5 = Bateman
| author-link5 = Alex Bateman
| first6 = D.| last6 = Binns
| first7 = P.| last7 = Bork
| author-link7 = Peer Bork
| first8 = U. | last8 = Das
| last9 = Daugherty | first9 = L.
| last10 = Duquenne | first10 = L.
| last11 = Finn | first11 = R. D.
| last12 = Gough | first12 = J. | author-link12 = Julian Gough (scientist)
| last13 = Haft | first13 = D.
| last14 = Hulo | first14 = N.
| last15 = Kahn | first15 = D.
| last16 = Kelly | first16 = E.
| last17 = Laugraud | first17 = A.
| last18 = Letunic | first18 = I.
| last19 = Lonsdale | first19 = D.
| last20 = Lopez | first20 = R.
| last21 = Madera | first21 = M.
| last22 = Maslen | first22 = J.
| last23 = McAnulla | first23 = C.
| last24 = McDowall | first24 = J.
| last25 = Mistry | first25 = J.
| last26 = Mitchell | first26 = A.
| last27 = Mulder | first27 = N.
| last28 = Natale | first28 = D.
| last29 = Orengo | first29 = C.
| last30 = Quinn | first30 = A. F.
| title = InterPro: the integrative protein signature database
| journal = Nucleic Acids Research
| volume = 37
| issue = Database issue
| pages = D211–D215
| date=Jan 2009 | issn = 0305-1048
| pmid = 18940856
| pmc = 2686546
| doi = 10.1093/nar/gkn785
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- EMBO Member (2012)
- ISCB Fellow (2015)}}
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}}Rolf Apweiler is a director of European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/rolf-apweiler Rolf Apweiler page at the EBI{{LinkedIn URL|name=Rolf Apweiler}} with Ewan Birney.{{EuropePMC}}{{Cite journal
| pmid = 16141072
| year = 2005
| last1 = Carninci
| first1 = P
| title = The transcriptional landscape of the mammalian genome
| journal = Science
| volume = 309
| issue = 5740
| pages = 1559–63
| last2 = Kasukawa
| first2 = T
| last3 = Katayama
| first3 = S
| last4 = Gough
| first4 = J
| author-link4 = Julian Gough (scientist)
| last5 = Frith
| first5 = M. C.
| last6 = Maeda
| first6 = N
| last7 = Oyama
| first7 = R
| last8 = Ravasi
| first8 = T
| last9 = Lenhard
| first9 = B
| last10 = Wells
| first10 = C
| last11 = Kodzius
| first11 = R
| last12 = Shimokawa
| first12 = K
| last13 = Bajic
| first13 = V. B.
| last14 = Brenner | first14 = S. E. | author-link14 = Steven E. Brenner
| last15 = Batalov
| first15 = S
| last16 = Forrest
| first16 = A. R.
| last17 = Zavolan
| first17 = M
| last18 = Davis
| first18 = M. J.
| last19 = Wilming
| first19 = L. G.
| last20 = Aidinis
| first20 = V
| last21 = Allen
| first21 = J. E.
| last22 = Ambesi-Impiombato
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| last23 = Apweiler
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| author-link23 = Rolf Apweiler
| last24 = Aturaliya
| first24 = R. N.
| last25 = Bailey
| first25 = T. L.
| last26 = Bansal
| first26 = M
| last27 = Baxter
| first27 = L
| last28 = Beisel
| first28 = K. W.
| last29 = Bersano
| first29 = T
| last30 = Bono
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| display-authors = 29
| doi = 10.1126/science.1112014
| bibcode = 2005Sci...309.1559F
| s2cid = 8712839
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Education
Apweiler gained his PhD in biochemistry from Heidelberg University.{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Rolf|last=Apweiler |title=Charakterisierung der Wirkung von ( - )-2-(4-Methylphenoxy)-7-(4-Chlorophenyl)-Heptansäure auf die Insulinsensitivität und Glucosetoleranz von fa-fa- und FA-?-Ratten |publisher=University of Heidelberg |date=1994 |url=http://d-nb.info/941652920|oclc=75488289}}http://pir.uniprot.org/help/apweiler Rolf Apweiler page at UniProt.org {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222172434/http://pir.uniprot.org/help/apweiler |date=February 22, 2014 }}
Research
Apweiler has been working on the Swiss-Prot{{Cite journal | last1 = Boeckmann | first1 = B. | last2 = Bairoch | first2 = A. | last3 = Apweiler | first3 = R. | last4 = Blatter | first4 = M. C. | last5 = Estreicher | first5 = A. | last6 = Gasteiger | first6 = E. | last7 = Martin | first7 = M. J. | last8 = Michoud | first8 = K. | last9 = O'Donovan | first9 = C. | last10 = Phan | first10 = I. | last11 = Pilbout | first11 = S. | last12 = Schneider | first12 = M. | title = The SWISS-PROT protein knowledgebase and its supplement TrEMBL in 2003 | doi = 10.1093/nar/gkg095 | journal = Nucleic Acids Research | volume = 31 | issue = 1 | pages = 365–370 | year = 2003 | pmid = 12520024| pmc =165542 }} protein sequence database since 1987, and in 1994 he became leader of the Swiss-Prot group. He has been joint head of the Protein and Nucleotide Data (PANDA) Group since 2007. The PANDA group is involved in several international collaborations like the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Proteomics Standards Initiative. Apweiler is a member of the Nomenclature Committee of IUBMB, the FlyBase advisory board, the committee of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the advisory board of the Human Proteome Resource (HPR).
Apweiler is an editor of the FEBS Journal and a section editor of BMC Bioinformatics and has published more than 200 papers.https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=rolf+apweiler Rolf Apweiler in Google Scholar{{DBLP|name=Rolf Apweiler}}{{Scopus id}}
=Awards and honours=
Apweiler was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2012,{{cite web|url=http://www.embo.org/documents/members/The_EMBO_Pocket_Directory.pd|title=The EMBO Pocket Directory|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316002020/http://www.embo.org/documents/members/The_EMBO_Pocket_Directory.pdf|archive-date=2015-03-16|publisher=European Molecular Biology Organization}} elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2015{{cite web|title=Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2015|url=http://www.iscb.org/iscb-news-items/2392-2015feb20-meet-the-iscb-fellows-class-of-2015|access-date=20 February 2015}} and elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2022.{{cite web|title=Rolf Apweiler|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Apweiler_Rolf|work=Member|publisher=Academia Europaea|access-date=2024-08-25}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of Bath
Category:Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
Category:German bioinformaticians
Category:Heidelberg University alumni
Category:Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization