Speaker's Profile

Sameer Velankar leads the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe)team at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute. The team develops essential macromolecular structure resources and tools for biologists and other life scientists.

As a founding partner of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank organisation, we work on the Protein Data Bank (PDB). We also manage the community-led PDBe – Knowledge Base resource and the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, a collaboration with DeepMind.

Our focus is on establishing a high-quality, up-to-date, andcomprehensive infrastructure by integrating 3D-structure data with biomedicaldata resources to provide enriched annotations.

PDBe team also continues to work on the development of anumber of innovative data analysis tools for 3D macromolecular structures tosupport its users.

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