Identity area
Reference code
DE 2324 C-OH-30
Title
Alan Robinson
Date(s)
- 2019-07-09 (Creation)
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One audio file (.WAV) and one digital file (.PDF)
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Scope and content
This is an interview with Alan Robinson who is part of the Industry Programme of the EBI in London. In this interview, Alan Robinson describes the process of how he came to the EBI. He describes the differences between the commercial and the academic research sector and how the interaction between the EBI and industry took place. Furthermore, Alan Robinson talks about how the use of biological data in scientific research began. He also gives an insight of his later work as team leader of the Industry Programme, of the relations between the EBI and EMBL Heidelberg and of MitoMiner