Terri Attwood

Teresa K. Attwood, born on 20 November 1959, is a professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Computer Science and the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester and a visiting fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She gained a BSc in Biophysics from the University of Leeds in 1982 and a PhD in Biophysics in 1984, and held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 1993 to 2002. Her research concerns protein sequence alignment and protein analysis: inspired by the creation of PROSITE she developed a method of protein fingerprinting and used it to establish the PRINTS database, and with Amos Bairoch and Rolf Apweiler she worked to unify protein family classification and annotation, securing the European Union grant that established InterPro in 1997. She has co-developed tools to align and visualise protein sequences and structures, including Ambrosia and CINEMA, spearheaded the establishment of the GOBLET bioinformatics training organisation in 2012, and co-authored the textbook Introduction to Bioinformatics.