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 analyzing 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.

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