Education
Bourne was trained as a physical chemist in the mid to late 1970s and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1979 at the The Flinders University of South Australia.
Physical chemist bioinformatician
Bourne was trained as a physical chemist in the mid to late 1970s and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1979 at the The Flinders University of South Australia.
He has contributed to textbooks and is a strong supporter of open-access literature and software. His diverse interests have spanned structural biology, medical informatics, information technology, structural bioinformatics, scholarly communication and pharmaceutical sciences. His papers are highly cited, and he has an h-index above 50.
He moved to the University of Sheffield to do postdoctoral research during 1979-1981, 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. He is known for writing the book Unix for Victoria University of Wellington Users (1990) and for being co-developer of the Combinatorial Extension algorithm for the three-dimensional alignment of protein structures, together with I. Shindyalov (1998).
In 1999 he became co-director of the Protein Data Bank. He was president of the ISCB (2002–2003).
He is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association since 2002.
He is founding Editor in Chief of PLoS Computational Biology (since 2005). In 2007 he co-founded SciVee. Bourne is an editor of the popular Ten Simple Rules series of editorials published in the PLoS Computational Biology journal.
He has served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Industrial Alliances and a professor of pharmacology at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (University of California, San Diego).
He is author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters and editor of the Structural Bioinformatics textbook. and Pharmacy Informatics Bourne has been married since 1983 to Roma Chalupa and they have two children: Scott Bourne (since 1985) and Melanie Bourne (since 1997). His interests include motorcycles, flying, and hiking. M. North. North. East.