Ewan Birney

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Ewan Birney is leader of the Birney Research Group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) outside Cambridge, UK. The group is known for its widely used Ensembl genome browser, and for its research on e.g. sequence alignment tools.

He was educated at Eton College, completed his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Balliol College, Oxford and did his PhD at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Insitute, under the supervision of Richard Durbin and registered at St John's College, Cambridge ("I'm posh any way you cut me, basically").

Before studying at University he completed an internship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the US. He has contributed to several bioinformatics and computational biology projects including the Pfam database and BioPerl and HMMer toolkits.