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Toby Gibson

Toby James Gibson is a group leader and biochemist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg[2][3] known for his work on Clustal.[1][4] According to Nature, Gibson's co-authored papers describing Clustal[4][5] are among the top ten most highly cited scientific papers of all time.[6]

Education

Gibson was educated at the University of Edinburgh[7] and went on to his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1984 on the genome of the Epstein–Barr virus[8] while working in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).[7]

Career and research

Gibson was a postdoctoral research fellow with Sydney Brenner before moving to EMBL in 1986.[7] He was appointed a staff scientist in 1991 and a team leader in 1996 where he has worked since.

Gibson’s research interests are in computational biology, bioinformatics, short linear motifs, protein–protein interactions and biological sequence alignment.[2] His laboratory developed and hosts the Eukaryotic Linear Motif (ELM) resource.[9]


References

  1. Thompson, Julie D.; Higgins, Desmond G.; Gibson, Toby J. (1994). "CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice". Nucleic Acids Research. 22 (22): 4673–4680. doi:10.1093/nar/22.22.4673. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 308517. PMID 7984417.
  2. Toby Gibson publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. Gibson, Toby James (1984). Studies on the Epstein-Barr virus genome. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 499859334. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.352786.
  4. Kumar, Manjeet; Gouw, Marc; Michael, Sushama; Sámano-Sánchez, Hugo; Pancsa, Rita; Glavina, Juliana; Diakogianni, Athina; Valverde, Jesús Alvarado; Bukirova, Dayana; Čalyševa, Jelena; Palopoli, Nicolas; Davey, Norman E; Chemes, Lucía B; Gibson, Toby J (2019). "ELM—the eukaryotic linear motif resource in 2020". Nucleic Acids Research. doi:10.1093/nar/gkz1030. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 7145657. PMID 31680160.

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