Team Members¶
The Pfam Consortium¶
Pfam is the product from an international consortium of researchers that has been borne out of its original development by Erik Sonnhammer, Sean Eddy and Richard Durbin. The current list of consortium members, their institutes and primary roles are listed below.
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), UK¶
Alex Bateman - Pfam team leader and head of Protein Sequence resources at EMBL-EBI
Antonina Entcheva Andreeva - Biocurator
Sara Chuguransky - Senior Biocurator
Tiago Grego - Software developer
Beatriz Lazaro Pinto - Biocurator
Typhaine Paysan-Lafosse - Curation Project Leader
Harvard University, USA¶
Sean Eddy - Founding developer and author of HMMER software
Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Sweden¶
Erik Sonnhammer - Coordinator of Pfam-Sweden and founding developer
External contributors¶
Pfam includes families that have been built by external contributors:
NCBI, USA¶
Lakshminarayan Iyer
L. Aravind
Zhang Dapeng
Vivek Anantharaman
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, USA¶
Adam Godizk
Previous contributors¶
Gabriel Aldam
Shimelis Assefa
Matthew Bashton
Ewan Birney
Lorenzo Cerrutti
Yuanyuan Chang
Jody Clements
Penny Coggill
Lachlan Coin
Robson De Souza
Richard Durbin
Ruth Eberhardt
Sara El-Gebali
Kyle Ellrott
Matthew Fenech
Kristoffer Forslund
O. Luke Gavin
Prasad Gunasekaran
Sam Griffiths-Jones
Kevin Howe
Lukasz Jaroszewski
Nicola Kerrison
Marta Llagostera
Aurélien Luciani
Mhairi Marshall
Nina Mian
William Mifsud
Jaina Mistry
Simon Moxon
Simon Potter
Joanne Pollington
Marco Punta
Matloob Qureshi
Lorna Richardson
Stephen-John Sammut
Luis Sanchez Pulido
Benjamin Schuster-Böckler
David Studholme
John Tate
Benjamin Vella-Briffa
Lowri Williams
Arthur Wuster
Corin Yeats
Pfam is a collaborative venture and we hope to be able to interact with as many people as possible, in order to provide a quality database. Please get in touch with any one of us for more information about Pfam. You can contact us trough the Pfam helpdesk.