Christoph Steinbeck
Team Leader, Cheminformatics and metabolism
PhD Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität, Bonn, 1995.Postdoc at Tufts University, Boston, 1996-1997. Group leader, Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, Jena, 1997-2002. Group leader, Cologne University 2002-2007. Lecturer in Cheminformatics, University of Tübingen, 2007. At EMBL-EBI since 2008.
steinbeck [at] ebi.ac.uk
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The Cheminformatics and metabolism team, led by Dr Christoph Steinbeck, provides the biomedical community with information on metabolism: small molecules and their interplay with biological systems. They develop and maintain MetaboLights, a metabolomics reference database and archive; ChEBI, EMBL-EBI’s database and ontology of chemical entities of biological interest; and the EnzymePortal (including Rhea and IntEnz), a user-led resource for enzyme-related data.
The team develops methods to decipher, organise and publish the small molecule metabolic content of organisms. They also develop algorithms to: process chemical information; predict metabolomes based on genomic and other information; determine the structure of metabolites by stochastic screening of large candidate spaces; and enable the identification of molecules with desired properties. This requires algorithms based on machine learning and other statistical methods for the prediction of spectroscopic and other physicochemical properties represented in chemical graphs. Dr Steinbeck also has a research group, which focuses on the understanding of the small-molecule metabolism of living organisms.
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