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Rolf Apweiler

Rolf Apweiler is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rolf Apweiler rather than just read about it. In short: Rolf Apweiler is a German bioinformatician who was director and associate director of European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) with Ewan Birney. Education Apweiler gained his PhD in biochemistry from Heidelberg University.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Rolf Apweiler is a German bioinformatician who was director and associate director of European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) with Ewan Birney.

Education Apweiler gained his PhD in biochemistry from Heidelberg University.

Research Apweiler has been working on the Swiss-Prot protein sequence database since 1987, and in 1994 he became leader of the Swiss-Prot group. He has been joint head of the Protein and Nucleotide Data (PANDA) Group since 2007. The PANDA group is involved in several international collaborations like the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Proteomics Standards Initiative. Apweiler is a member of the Nomenclature Committee of IUBMB, the FlyBase advisory board, the committee of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the advisory board of the Human Proteome Resource (HPR). Apweiler is an editor of the FEBS Journal and a section editor of BMC Bioinformatics and has published more than 200 papers.

Awards and honours Apweiler was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2012, elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2015 and elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2022.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rolf Apweiler

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rolf Apweiler claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rolf Apweiler before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rolf Apweiler ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rolf Apweiler

In research: Rolf Apweiler appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rolf Apweiler in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rolf Apweiler is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Alumni of the University of Bath, Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology, German bioinformaticians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rolf Apweiler outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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