Tim Hubbard
Dr Tim Hubbard is responsible for bioinformatics groups carrying out
analysis and annotation of vertebrate genome sequence produced by the
Sanger Institute. He is joint head of the Ensembl genome annotation
project (www.ensembl.org), which is the leading database and access
point for the human genome sequence. He is also co-author of SCOP,
Structural Classification of Proteins Database
(
scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop), which was one of the first biological
databases to provide access via the web in 1994, and co-organiser of
CASP, the bi-annual 'competition' to predict protein structures
(predictioncenter.llnl.gov).
Following the controversy surrounding the ownership and access to the
human genome sequence, he has become a leading advocate of the
benefits of strong 'openness' for science and society as a whole
(c.f. the open source software movement). He is involved in a number
of NGO/Industry forums regarding the world patent system and access
to essential drugs, including Médecin San Frontières plan to set up a
public domain drug development industry, DNDi.
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Head, Human Genome Analysis
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