Bob Maccallum
Senior Bioinformatics Developer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Maccallum is a Senior Bioinformatics Developer with 15 years of experience building web-based resources and supervised research for vector biology at Imperial College London. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Bioinformatics and a first-class Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge—with a research background in protein structure prediction and biologically inspired machine learning from roles at Stockholm University and Cancer Research UK. At VectorBase he delivers production-ready bioinformatics tools and visualisations that support mosquito and disease-vector researchers, bridging method development and user-facing web services. Known for applying genetic programming and ML approaches to biological problems, he brings both domain expertise and practical software engineering to complex data challenges. Based in London, he also has an unusual blend of interests spanning bio, medical informatics and music, which informs a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Natural Sciences, First class honours, Bachelor's degree, Natural Sciences, First class honours at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at University College London, U. of London
English, Swedish
Github Skills (113)
flask9
bioinformatics9
react9
biology9
data-visualization8
data-analytics8
semantics8
python8
categorical8
tidyverse8
ecology8
css8
visualization8
data-analysis8
pathogen8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bobular/isatab-generators
Nov 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:10 PRs, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
isapartyparsersparsingparser
bobular/Bio-Parser-ISATab
Mar 2011 - Jan 2022
Contributions:49 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 11 months
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