Rolf Apweiler is a director of

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(EBI) part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) with

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Education

Apweiler gained his

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from

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Research

Apweiler has been working on the

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database since 1987, and in 1994 he became leader of the Swiss-Prot group. He has been joint head of the

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and

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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

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(HZI) and the advisory board of the

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(HPR). Apweiler is an editor of the '' FEBS Journal'' and a section editor of ''

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'' and has published more than 200 papers.https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=rolf+apweiler Rolf Apweiler in

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Awards and honours

Apweiler was elected a member of the

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(EMBO) in 2012 and elected a

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of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2015.

References

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