Adam Witney
Reader In Bioinformatics
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Witney is a Reader in Bioinformatics with over 20 years of experience applying computational methods to infectious disease genomics, microbial whole-genome sequencing and high-throughput transcriptional data. Based in London, he designs and maintains production-grade databases and analysis pipelines (Perl, DBIx::Class, Bioconductor/R, SQL) and has led the development and scaling of BμG@Sbase, supporting data tracking and analysis for 100+ research groups. His work spans hands-on sequencing analysis (IonTorrent, Illumina, 454), microbial outbreak and SNP investigation, and the creation of web interfaces and systems administration for research platforms. Known for bridging wet-lab requirements with robust software solutions, he also brings legacy expertise in building networked molecular biology resources (BLAST, ClustalW, Primer3) for large collaborative programs.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Malaria Molecular Biology, PhD, Malaria Molecular Biology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of LondonBrentwood
English, Slovak
Github Skills (45)
phylogenetic-trees10
annotations9
r9
visualization9
standardization9
file-format9
predictor9
genomics8
bacteria8
transcriptomics8
bioinformatics8
statistics7
smart-table6
amr6
bcftools6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
awitney/hAMRonization_workflow
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Harmonization of AMR predictor tool outputs
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 4 months
outputsharmonizationpredictoramr
awitney/hAMRonization
Oct 2020 - Jun 2024
Parse multiple Antimicrobial Resistance Analysis Reports into a common data structure
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 8 months
reportsresistanceantimicrobialanalysis-reportsantimicrobial-resistance
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