Dr Tim Hubbard is a Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and was one of the organisers of the sequencing of the human genome. In 1999 he co-founded the Ensembl project to analysis, organise and provide access to the human genome and currently leads the ENCODE project that creates the GENCODE human gene set.

Prior to working on genomes, he co-founded the SCOP database to organise protein 3D structures, and co-organised CASP (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction), one of the first blind test competition frameworks to evaluate prediction methods in biology. He is actively involved in efforts to improve data sharing in science, develop open access publishing resources and plan for the adoption of genomic medicine. He is a member of the cross funding agency Expert Advisory Board on Data Access (EAGDA) and is chair of the advisory board of Europe PubMedCentral.

He was a member of the OSCHR e-health board, which advised on the use of electronic patient record data for research, supporting the work to create the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and the creation of the UK Farr Institute. He was a member of the Bioinformatics and Education, Engagement and Training working groups of the Human Genomic Strategy Group (HGSG) and is a member of the Scottish Health Informatics Research Advisory Group (HIRAG). In 2013 he was seconded part time to NHS England as specialist advisor for the project to sequence 100,000 genomes