Søren Brunak

Infobox Scientist


image_width = 150px
name = Brunak, Søren
residence = Copenhaguen, Denmark
nationality = Danish
field = Bioinformatics
work_institution = Technical University of Denmark
alma_mater = Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
known_for = Development of computational tools for protein sequence analysis
prizes = Dir. Ib Henriksens Price for Outstanding Science Achievement, Villum Kann Rasmussen Price for Research within the Natural and Technical Sciences.

Søren Brunak (born 1958) is a Danish physical and biological scientist working in bioinformatics. He is the director of the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the BioCentrum-DTU of the Technical University of Denmark since 1993.

Biography

Søren Brunak obtained his M.Sc. in Physics, in 1987 at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, in 1991 his Ph.D. in Computational Biology at the Department of Structural Properties of Materials, Technical University of Denmark, and in 2002 a Dr.phil. (honoris causa) from the Natural Science Faculty of the Stockholm University.

He is member of the Danish Academy for the Natural Sciences since 1997, member of the Board of directors of the International Society for Computational Biology since 2001, of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences since 2002, and of the Danish Royal Society of Science and Letters since 2004.

He is part of the scientific advisory committees of several scientific organizations, such as EMBL (Heidelberg), Ensembl at the European Bioinformatics Institute/Sanger Centre (chairman), the Bioinformatics Advisory Committee at the European Bioinformatics Institute (chairman), and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics(Berlin).

Dir. Ib Henriksens Price for Outstanding Science Achievement. Villum Kann Rasmussen Price for Research within the Natural and Technical Sciences (2006).

Work

Brunak's main research is in Bioinformatics and systems biology. In particular, the prediction of protein properties from their sequences. For example, protein cleavage sites, protein glycosilation sites, phosphorylation sites, transmembrane helices, etc.

Publications

* 1990, "Neural Networks - Computers with Intuition". Brunak S, Lautrup B, World Scientific Publishing, 178 pages.
* 1994, "Protein Structure by Distance Analysis". Bohr H, Brunak S (eds.), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 352 pages.
* 1995, "Protein Folds: A Distance Based Approach". Bohr H, Brunak S (eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, 318 pages
* 1998, "Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approach". Baldi P, Brunak S, MIT Press, 360 pages.
* 2001, "Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approach", 2nd edition. Baldi P, Brunak S, MIT Press, 360 pages.
* 2001, "Genome Sequence Databases". Ussery DW, Brunak S, Encyclopedia of Genetics, S. Brenner and J.H. Miller (eds.), Academic Press.
* 2001, "Bidirectional Dynamics for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction". Baldi P, Brunak S, Frasconi P, Pollastri G, Soda G, Sequence Learning - Paradigms, Algorithms, and Applications, R. Sun and C. Lee Giles (eds.), 80-104, Springer Verlag.
* 2005, "Immunological Bioinformatics". Lund O, Nielsen M, Lundegaard C, Kesmir C, Brunak S, MIT Press, 312 pages.

External links

* [http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/staff/show-staff.php?id=514 Home page]
* [http://www.mva.org/content/us/about_us/board_of_directors/soren_brunak Biography]