Philip Bourne

Phil Bourne
Philip Eric Bourne
Born	Philip Eric Bourne 1953 (age 63–64)
Residence	Maryland
Fields	Bioinformatics
Institutions	NIH University of California, San Diego Columbia University University of Sheffield
Alma mater	Flinders University (PhD)
Thesis	Crystal structure analyses : metal complexes of biological interest and the stereochemistry of substituted phonylbicyclooctanes (1979)
Notable students	Werner G. Krebs
Known for	Unix for VMS Users (1990) PLoS Computational Biology Protein Data Bank SciVee
Notable awards
Spouse	Roma Chalupa
Children	Scott Bourne (b. 1985) Melanie Bourne (b. 1997)
Website www.sdsc.edu/pb

Philip Eric Bourne (born 1953) is a United States researcher in health informatics, former Associate Vice Chancellor at UCSD, non-fiction writer, and entrepreneur. He is the first Associate Director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health, where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative. 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.

Bourne was trained as a physical chemist in the mid to late 1970s and obtained his PhD in 1979 at the The Flinders University of South Australia. 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. In 2014, he moved to NIH to become its Associate Director for Data Science.

In January 2017, it was announced that he had accepted a position as director of University of Virginia's Data Science Institute.

He is known for writing the book Unix for VMS 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 (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 (UCSD). He is an advisor to the Hypothes.is project and Associate Director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative.