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2026

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Molecular Biology

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alex Bateman is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with a particular focus on Molecular Biology.

Their scholarly work covers a broad spectrum of topics, including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications

Alex Bateman has contributed extensively to several prominent publication venues, notably:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bioinformatics Advances
  • Nature
  • Bioinformatics

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • María Martin
  • Alan Bridge
  • Antonina Andreeva
  • Nicole Redaschi
  • Sandra Orchard

Notable recent publications by Alex Bateman include:

  • UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021, 2020, published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023, 2022, published in Nucleic Acids Research

Other significant papers in the broader research network of the field include:

  • Pfam: The protein families database in 2021, 2020, published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome, 2021, published in Nature
  • InterPro in 2022, 2022, published in Nucleic Acids Research

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • The Pfam protein families database

    Marco Punta;Penny C. Coggill;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Jaina Mistry

  • UniProt: A worldwide hub of protein knowledge

    Alex Bateman

  • UniProt: A hub for protein information

    Alex Bateman;Maria Jesus Martin;Claire O'Donovan;Michele Magrane

  • UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021

    Alex Bateman;Maria-Jesus Martin;Sandra Orchard

  • Pfam: The protein families database in 2021.

    Jaina Mistry;Sara Chuguransky;Lowri Williams;Matloob Qureshi

  • Pfam: the protein families database.

    Robert D. Finn;Alex Bateman;Jody Clements;Penelope Coggill

  • miRBase: microRNA sequences, targets and gene nomenclature

    Sam Griffiths-Jones;Russell J. Grocock;Stijn van Dongen;Alex Bateman

  • The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong

    S. Carbon;E. Douglass;N. Dunn;B. Good

  • The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

    Robert D. Finn;Penelope Coggill;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Sean R. Eddy;Sean R. Eddy

  • The Pfam protein families database in 2019.

    Sara El-Gebali;Jaina Mistry;Alex Bateman;Sean R Eddy

  • Complete genome sequence of the model actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

    S. D. Bentley;K. F. Chater;A.-M. Cerdeño-Tárraga;G. L. Challis;G. L. Challis

  • PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Kyle Bittinger;Frederic D. Bushman;Todd Z. DeSantis

  • The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

    Seth Carbon;Eric Douglass;Benjamin M Good

  • Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome

    Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool;Jonas Adler;Zachary Wu;Tim Green

  • Activities at the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)

    R Apweiler;A Bateman;MJ Martin;C O'Donovan

  • Pfam: clans, web tools and services

    Robert D. Finn;Jaina Mistry;Benjamin Schuster-Böckler;Sam Griffiths-Jones

  • InterPro: the integrative protein signature database

    Sarah Hunter;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • The InterPro Database, 2003 brings increased coverage and new features

    Nicola J Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K Attwood;Amos Marc Bairoch

  • Rfam: an RNA family database

    Sam Griffiths-Jones;Alex Bateman;Mhairi Marshall;Ajay Khanna

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean R. Eddy
Sean R. Eddy Harvard University
Neil D. Rawlings
Neil D. Rawlings European Bioinformatics Institute
Sam Griffiths-Jones
Sam Griffiths-Jones University of Manchester
Teresa K. Attwood
Teresa K. Attwood University of Manchester
Rolf Apweiler
Rolf Apweiler European Bioinformatics Institute
Rodrigo Lopez
Rodrigo Lopez European Bioinformatics Institute
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge
Amos Marc Bairoch
Amos Marc Bairoch Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Cathy H. Wu
Cathy H. Wu University of Delaware
Sandra Orchard
Sandra Orchard European Bioinformatics Institute

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