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Michael Ashburner wins prestigious computational biology award21 July 2011The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) has presented Michael Ashburner with this year's Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award, acknowledging his outstanding contributions to the field of computational biology. "His work is now seen as a landmark and an achievement in technology," says Alfonso Valencia, chair of the ISCB awards committee. Michael was joint-director of EMBL-EBI with Graham Cameron.
His other achievements include spearheading the creation of FlyBase, one of the first genetic (and now genomic) databases, and setting up the EBI's Gene Ontology project. He also collaborated with Gerry Rubin and Craig Venter in sequencing the Drosophila genome in 1999. Michael is now Emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge.
"We're lucky to have such an inspirational figure in the community," says Valencia. "This award has been well deserved for a number of years."
See the June 2011 issue of PLoS Computational Biology for full details.
You can also watch Michael Ashburner's ISMB / ECCB 2011 keynote on Vimeo
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