Biography:Toby Gibson

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Toby Gibson
Born
Toby James Gibson
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh (BSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational biology
Bioinformatics
Short linear motifs
Protein interactions
Sequence alignment[1]
InstitutionsLaboratory of Molecular Biology
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
ThesisStudies on the Epstein-Barr virus genome (1984)
InfluencesSydney Brenner[2]
Websitewww.embl.de/research/units/scb/gibson

Toby James Gibson is a group leader and biochemist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg[1][3] known for his work on Clustal.[4][5] According to Nature, Gibson's co-authored papers describing Clustal[5][6] are among the top ten most highly cited scientific papers of all time.[7]

Education

Gibson was educated at the University of Edinburgh[2] and went on to his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1984 on the genome of the Epstein–Barr virus[8] while working in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).[2]

Career and research

Gibson was a postdoctoral research fellow with Sydney Brenner before moving to EMBL in 1986.[2] He was appointed a staff scientist in 1991 and a team leader in 1996 where he has worked since.

Gibson’s research interests are in computational biology, bioinformatics, short linear motifs, protein–protein interactions and biological sequence alignment.[1] His laboratory developed and hosts the Eukaryotic Linear Motif (ELM) resource.[9]

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Anon (2019). "Toby (James) Gibson: EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany". Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. https://rtg2467.uni-halle.de/scientific-advisory-board/toby-james-gibson/. 
  3. Toby Gibson publications from Europe PubMed Central
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  5. 5.0 5.1 Thompson, J. (1997). "The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools". Nucleic Acids Research 25 (24): 4876–4882. doi:10.1093/nar/25.24.4876. ISSN 1362-4962. PMID 9396791. 
  6. Thompson, J. D.; Higgins, D. G. (1994). "CLUSTAL W: Improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice". Nucleic Acids Research 22 (22): 4673–4680. doi:10.1093/nar/22.22.4673. PMID 7984417. 
  7. Van Noorden, R.; Maher, B.; Nuzzo, R. (2014). "The top 100 papers: Nature explores the most-cited research of all time". Nature 514 (7524): 550–3. doi:10.1038/514550a. PMID 25355343. 
  8. Gibson, Toby James (1984). Studies on the Epstein-Barr virus genome. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 499859334. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.352786.
  9. Kumar, Manjeet; Gouw, Marc; Michael, Sushama; Sámano-Sánchez, Hugo; Pancsa, Rita; Glavina, Juliana; Diakogianni, Athina; Valverde, Jesús Alvarado et al. (2019). "ELM—the eukaryotic linear motif resource in 2020". Nucleic Acids Research. doi:10.1093/nar/gkz1030. ISSN 0305-1048. PMID 31680160.