Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is a
Chilean-born
Swedish
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biologist and computer scientist. He received his doctorate in medical sciences from
Uppsala University in 1994. He is Professor of Bioinformatics and the head of SLU-Global Bioinformatics Centre at the
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His main research deals with development of bioinformatics solutions for the Life Sciences community.
He was the chairman of
EMBnet
The European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) is an international scientific network and interest group that aims to enhance bioinformatics services by bringing together bioinformatics expertises and capacities. On 2011 EMBnet has 37 nodes spread ...
,
(2003–2010) a science-based group of collaborating bioinformatics nodes throughout Europe, and a number of nodes outside Europe. He is also the director of SLU-Global Bioinformatics Centre which created
eBiotools,
eBioX and eBioKit.
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is also executive board member of:
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ISCB, The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
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EMBRACE,
European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education
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EuroKup,
European Kidney and Urine Proteomics, an EU
COST-action.
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UPPMAX, Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science. UPPMAX is a Swedish regional center for high performance computing. UPPMAX is part of
SweGrid.
MedBioInfo Swedish National Research School in Medical Bioinformatics.
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GOBLET,
The Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training.
Coordinator of:
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B3Africa, "Bridging Biobanking and Biomedical Research across Europe and Africa". B3Africa aims to implement a cooperation platform and technical informatics framework for biobank integration between Africa and Europe.
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SeqAhead,
Chairman of the European COST Action: Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network
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ALLBIO, Broadening the Bioinformatics Infrastructure to unicellular, animal, and plant science. ALLBIO is a FP7 project, KBBE.2011.3.6-02: Supporting the development of Bioinformatics Infrastructures for the effective exploitation of genomic data: Beyond health applications.
In
1992
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he survived attempted murder at the hands of
John Ausonius.
During his undergraduate years in Uppsala Erik was an accomplished photographer documenting contemporary student life at the university.
References
External links
B3Africa, Horizon2020 projectSGBC: SLU-Global Bioinformatics CentreSeqAhead: Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis NetworkALLBIO projectCOST CHARMEEMBRACEeBioKit: Bioinformatics Education PlatformEMBnet
Living people
Swedish biologists
Chilean biologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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