Erik Bongcam-Rudloff Explained

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is a Chilean-born Swedish biologist and computer scientist. He received his doctorate in medical sciences from Uppsala University in 1994. He is Professor of Bioinformatics and the head of SLU-Global Bioinformatics Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His main research deals with development of bioinformatics solutions for the Life Sciences community.

He was the chairman of EMBnet,^[1] (2003–2010) a science-based group of collaborating bioinformatics nodes throughout Europe, and a number of nodes outside Europe. He is also the director of SLU-Global Bioinformatics Centre which created eBiotools, eBioX and eBioKit.^[2]

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is also executive board member of:

• ISCB, The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
• EMBRACE,^[3] European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education
• EuroKup,^[4] European Kidney and Urine Proteomics, an EU COST-action.
• UPPMAX, Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science. UPPMAX is a Swedish regional center for high performance computing. UPPMAX is part of SweGrid.
• MedBioInfo, Swedish National Research School in Medical Bioinformatics.
• GOBLET,^[5] The Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training.

Coordinator of:

• B3Africa, "Bridging Biobanking and Biomedical Research across Europe and Africa". B3Africa aims to implement a cooperation platform and technical informatics framework for biobank integration between Africa and Europe.
• SeqAhead,^[6] Chairman of the European COST Action: Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network
• ALLBIO, Broadening the Bioinformatics Infrastructure to unicellular, animal, and plant science. ALLBIO is a FP7 project, KBBE.2011.3.6-02: Supporting the development of Bioinformatics Infrastructures for the effective exploitation of genomic data: Beyond health applications.

In 1992 he survived attempted murder at the hands of John Ausonius.

During his undergraduate years in Uppsala Erik was an accomplished photographer documenting contemporary student life at the university.

External links

• B3Africa, Horizon2020 project
• SGBC: SLU-Global Bioinformatics Centre
• SeqAhead: Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network
• ALLBIO project
• COST CHARME
• EMBRACE
• eBioKit: Bioinformatics Education Platform
• EMBnet
• BIBE 2008, 8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering

Notes and References

1. Domenica D'Elia1, Andreas Gisel1, Nils-Einar Eriksson, Sophia Kossida, Kimmo Mattila, Lubos Klucar and Erik Bongcam-Rudloff . The 20th anniversary of EMBnet: 20 years of bioinformatics for the Life Sciences community. BMC Bioinformatics . 10 . 2009 . Suppl 6. 10.1186/1471-2105-10-S6-S1 . 19534734 . S1 . 2697632 . free.
2. Rafael Hernandez. Etienne de Villiers . Tomas Klingström . Hadrien Gourle. Ana Conesa . Erik Bongcam-Rudloff . The eBioKit, a stand-alone educational platform for bioinformatics. PLOS Computational Biology. 2017 . 13 . 9 . e1005616 . 28910280. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005616 . 5598936 . 2017PLSCB..13E5616H . free .
3. Embrace. EMBRACE: European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education . EU Genomics News . 2005 .
4. Vlahou, A., Allmaier, G., Attwood, T., Bongcam-Rudloff, E., Charonis, A., Frokiaer, J., Mischak, H., Schanstra, J. and Spasovski, G . Proteomics: Clinical Applications . 10 . 2009 . 10.1002/prca.200900087 . 1017–1022 . 2nd Combined Working Group and Management Committee Meeting of Urine and Kidney Proteomics COST Action 29–30 March 2009, Nafplio, Greece . 9 . 21137004 . 206386997 .
5. Corpas . M. . Manuel Corpas (Scientist). Jimenez . R. C. . Bongcam-Rudloff . E. . Erik Bongcam-Rudloff. Budd . A. . Brazas . M. D. . Fernandes . P. L. . van Gelder . C. . Korpelainen . E. . Lewitter . F. . McGrath . A. . MacLean . D. . Palagi . P. . Rother . K. . Taylor . J. . Via . A. . Watson . M. . Schneider . M. V. . Attwood . T. K. . 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu601 . The GOBLET training portal: a global repository of bioinformatics training materials, courses and trainers . Bioinformatics . 31 . 140–142 . 2015 . 1 . 25189782. 4271145 .
6. Teresa Attwood . Erik Bongcam-Rudloff . Andreas Gisel . SEQAHEAD - COST Action BM1006: Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network . EMBnet.journal. 17 . 2011 . 1 .