Rolf Apweiler
Dr Apweiler is an EMBL Senior Scientist and Head of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Sequence Database Group. He has been working on the Swiss-Prot database since 1987, and in 1994 he became leader of the Swiss-Prot group at EBI, UK. He started the TrEMBL, InterPro, GOA, Proteome analysis and CluSTr projects at the EBI. Since autumn 2001, he has also been in charge of the EMBL nucleotide sequence database. In the earlier days of his involvement with Swiss-Prot, he worked for three years in drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry at Boehringer Mannheim. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Heidelberg University.