Education
Doctor Bork received his Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry (1990) and his Habilitation in Theoretical Biophysics (1995).
Doctor Bork received his Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry (1990) and his Habilitation in Theoretical Biophysics (1995).
In addition, he holds an appointment at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. He works in various areas of computational biology and systems analysis with a focus on function prediction, comparative analysis and data integration. Doctor Peer Bork coauthored more than 650 research articles in international, peer-reviewed journals, among them more than 50 in Nature, Science and Cell.
According to Inter-Services Intelligence (analyzing 10 years spans), Doctor Bork was for many years the most cited European researcher in Molecular Biology and Genetics and is among the top 5 in Biochemistry and Biology.
He is on the editorial board of a number of journals including Science and PLoS Biology, and functions as senior editor of the journal Molecular Systems Biology. Doctor Bork co-founded five biotech companies, two of which went public.
More than 35 of his former associates now hold professorships or other group leader positions in prominent institutions all over the world. He was also the recipient of the prestigious "Royal Society and Academie des Sciences Microsoft Award" for the advancement of science using computational methods and obtained a competitive "European Research Council advanced investigator grant".
According to Google Scholar, his most cited peer-reviewed papers are on human genome, mouse genome, yeast proteome, and Simple Modular Architecture Tool (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology).
He has published on the human gut microbiome defining basic enterotypes and an interactive Tree of Life. See a full list of Peer Bork"s publications on PubMed.