Avigail Taylor
Technical Lead In Bioinformatics, Oxford-GSK Institute Of Molecular And Computational Medicine
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAvigail Taylor is a Technical Lead in Bioinformatics at the Oxford-GSK Institute of Molecular and Computational Medicine with 11 years of experience translating genomics and multi-omics data into drug discovery insights for neurodegenerative diseases. She leads a multidisciplinary team spanning bioinformatics, machine learning, mathematical modelling, human genetics and clinical expertise, while remaining hands-on—designing methods for novel omics data types and building reproducible workflows across IMCM projects. With a PhD in Bioinformatics from Oxford and a first-class MEng in Computing from Imperial, she blends deep computational rigor with domain-facing translational goals. Colleagues describe her as a practical innovator who balances strategic target identification with day-to-day code and pipeline development, ensuring analyses are both cutting-edge and deployable.
11 years of coding experience
Bioinformatics PhD, Bioinformatics PhD at University of OxfordComputing MEng (Hons), 1st Class, Computing MEng (Hons), 1st Class at Imperial College London
Github Skills (3)
fdr9
genomics8
python4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
avigailtaylor/gntat14
Oct 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 39 pushes in 1 year 11 months
avigailtaylor/GeneFEAST
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
GeneFEAST is a gene-centric functional enrichment analysis summarisation and visualisation tool implemented in Python.
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 361 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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