Timothy John Phillip Hubbard is a Professor of

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

, Head of Genome Analysis at Genomics England and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK.

Education

Hubbard was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) in 1985. He went on to do research in protein design in the Department of Crystallography,

Birkbeck College, London , mottoeng = Advice comes over nightTranslation used by Birkbeck. , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £4.3 m (2014) , budget = £10 ...

where he was awarded a

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in 1988 for research supervised by Tom Blundell.

Research and career

Hubbard's research interests are in

Computational biology Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fo ...

and Genome

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. During his tenure at WTSI he supervised several successful PhD students to completion in these areas of research. Hubbard was appointed Professor of Bioinformatics at King's in October 2013. His research has been published in leading peer reviewed

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s including '' Nature'', the ''

Journal of Molecular Biology The ''Journal of Molecular Biology'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of molecular biology. It was established in 1959 and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Peter Wright ( The Scripps Research In ...

'', '' Nucleic Acids Research'', '' Genome Biology'', '' Nature Methods'', ''

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'' and ''

''. His research been funded by the

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and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

References

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