Philip Bourne

Bourne was trained as a physical chemist in the mid to late 1970s and obtained his PhD in 1979[1] at the Flinders University.

After his PhD, Bourne moved to the University of Sheffield to do postdoctoral research during 1979-1981,[15] followed by a move to Columbia University, New York, in 1981. In 1995 he moved to University of California, San Diego, where he was a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology. In 2014, he moved to NIH to become its Associate Director for Data Science. In January 2017, it was announced that he had accepted a position as director of University of Virginia's Data Science Institute.[16]

He is known for writing the book Unix for VMS Users (1990)[2] and for being co-developer of the Combinatorial Extension algorithm for the three-dimensional alignment of protein structures,[17] together with I. Shindyalov (1998). In 1999 he became co-director of the Protein Data Bank.[18] He was president of the ISCB (2002–2003).[19] He is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association since 2002.[20] He is founding Editor in Chief of PLoS Computational Biology (2005-). In 2007 he co-founded SciVee.[4] Bourne is an editor of the popular Ten Simple Rules series of editorials published in the PLoS Computational Biology journal.[21] He has served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Industrial Alliances[12] and a professor of pharmacology at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).[22][23] He is an advisor to the Hypothes.is project[24] and Associate Director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative.[25][26]

Bourne has been married since 1983 to Roma Chalupa and they have two children: Scott Bourne (1985-) and Melanie Bourne (1997-). His interests include motorcycles,[31] flying, and hiking

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