Carole Anne Goble, CBE FREng FBCS[12] (born 10 April 1961)[7] is a British academic who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.

[13] She is principal investigator (PI) of the myGrid,[14] BioCatalogue[15] and myExperiment[16] projects and co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG) with Norman Paton.

She applies advances in knowledge technologies and workflow systems[25] to solve information management problems for life scientists and other scientific disciplines.

[citation needed] She has given keynotes on digital curation, e-social science, grid computing, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology,[31][47] Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing,[22] hypertext and hypermedia, Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC),[11] artificial intelligence,[48] systems biology, discovery science, the Semantic Web, International World Wide Web Conference[49] and medical informatics.

Goble was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to science.