Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Mewes Date of Birth 30.06.1951 Current ...

Date of Birth 30.06.1951
Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Mewes
Current Position Director of the Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems
Scientific career
Biology, HMGU
Professor for Bioinformatics, Faculty for Life and Food
Sciences, TUM
2001
2001
University Philipps University Marburg, Diploma in Chemistry 1969 - 1977
Degrees MPI für Biochemie Martinsried, Universität Marburg
PhD in Natural Sciences, Thesis: 'Identifizierung von
Proteinen durch Aminosäureanalyse und Datenbanksuche'
1985 - 1987
Post-Doc Jun. Scientist, Institute for Biochemistry,
University Heidelberg
1978 - 1982
Research Fellow, EMBL Heidelberg 1983 - 1985
Jun. Scientist, MPI für Biochemistry, Martinsried 1985 - 1987
Further Positions Group Leader, MPG Research Group, MIPS, Martinsried 1988 - 2001
Honorary Professor LMU 1999 - 2001
Homepage Institute for Bioinformatics and
Systems Biology
http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/ibis
E-Mail w.mewes@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Five most important publications
Rattei T, Tischler P, Gotz S, Jehl MA, Hoser J, Arnold R, Conesa A, Mewes HW (2010) SIMAP--a
comprehensive database of pre-calculated protein sequence similarities, domains, annotations and
clusters. Nucleic Acids Res 38:D223-226.
Kastenmuller G, Schenk ME, Gasteiger J, Mewes HW (2009) Uncovering metabolic pathways relevant
to phenotypic traits of microbial genomes. Genome Biol 10:R28.
Mewes HW, Dietmann S, Frishman D, Gregory R, Mannhaupt G, Mayer KF, Munsterkotter M, Ruepp
A, Spannagl M, Stumpflen V, Rattei T (2008) MIPS: analysis and annotation of genome information
in 2007. 36:D196-D201.
Mewes HW, Albermann K, Bahr M, Frishman D, Gleissner A, Hani J, Heumann K, Kleine K, Maierl A,

Oliver SG, Pfeiffer F, Zollner A (1997) Overview of the yeast genome. Nature 387:7-8.
Goffeau A, Barrell BG, Bussey H, Davis RW, Dujon B, Feldmann H, Galibert F, Hoheisel JD, Jacq C,
Johnston M, Louis EJ, Mewes HW, Murakami Y, Philippsen P, Tettelin H, Oliver SG (1996) Life with
6000 genes. Science 274:546.