Dr Andrew Page

17 May 2018
11:00am

QIB Lecture Theatre

A hype free crash course on all things nanopore

Speaker: Dr Andrew Page, Head of Informatics, Quadram Institute Bioscience, will present a seminar entitled: Andrew Page

 

Abstract:
Long read sequencing from Oxford Nanopore Technologies is an amazing disruptive technology which is revolutionising genomics. It is a rapidly evolving area with new bioinformatics methods and software coming out weekly. This talk will give an overview of what the technology is, what it can realistically do, suggestions for analysis strategies and best practice, and where things are going in the future.

 

Biography:
I am the Head of Informatics at the Quadram Institute with an interest in high performance computing and high throughput bioinformatics sequence analysis pipelines.

I have BSc in Software Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science on the topic of Distributed Computing Systems.  I was a Post-Doctoral research fellow at the National College of Ireland working on machine learning. After moving to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, I worked on Laboratory Information Systems.

In 2011 I became the Principal Computer Programmer in the Pathogen Informatics group supporting the Infection Genomics group at Sanger. My work focused on building and managing bioinformatics sequence analysis pipelines for pathogenic organisms using both short and long read sequencing technologies. As part of this work I developed multiple novel software applications for analysing bacterial genomic data including Roary for pan-genome analysis, Gubbins for recombination detection, SNP-sites for SNP analysis and PlasmidTron for assembling mobile genetic elements.

In 2018 I moved to the Quadram Institute where my group provides support for Informatics and Bioinformatics.


Further information:
https://quadram.ac.uk/people/andrew-page/

 

All staff from organisations on the Norwich Research Park are welcome to attend.