Sameer Velankar

leader mx computational pi wwpdb archive-lead

PDBe (UK, EMBL-EBI) / EMBL-EBI

Info

Section Head for Macromolecules, Structure, Chemistry and Bioimaging at EMBL-EBI; Senior Scientist at EMBL; leader of the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) team. Career focus: enabling use of macromolecular structure data through advanced data analysis, query, and visualisation tools. Leads work on the PDB, the PDBe-KB (Knowledge Base), and the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (developed collaboratively with Google DeepMind).

wwPDB role

Principal Investigator for PDBe, the European member of the wwPDB. Key architect of wwPDB validation, visualisation, and the AlphaFold DB integration.

Affiliations

• EMBL-EBI — Section Head, Macromolecules, Structure, Chemistry and Bioimaging
• EMBL — Senior Scientist
• PDBe — Team Leader

Training

• PhD, Indian Institute of Science
• Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford (1997-2000)

Committees & service

• wwPDB — Principal Investigator (PDBe)
• AlphaFold Protein Structure Database — joint leadership with Google DeepMind

Key Relationships

• Mihaly Varadi, John Berrisford, Deborah Harrus, Sreenath Nair, Matthew Hartley — PDBe colleagues at EMBL-EBI
• Google DeepMind partnership for the AlphaFold DB (with Augustin Zidek and John Jumper)

Sources

• EMBL-EBI people page: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/people/person/sameer-velankar/
• wwPDB 2025 Advisory Committee report: https://cdn.rcsb.org/wwpdb/docs/about/advisory/wwpdbac2025-report.pdf