Dan Bolser
Principal Bioinformatician
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Bolser is a Principal Bioinformatician with 15 years of multidisciplinary experience bridging genomics, data management and blockchain engineering. Based in Cambridge, he currently leads bioinformatics at OutSee while also founding and running Geromics, combining hands-on technical delivery with strategic leadership. His background includes leading Ensembl Plants at EMBL-EBI, coordinating large consortia for genome projects, and building data systems from cancer biobanks to SQL-backed migrations. Equally comfortable writing production code and improving scientific software, he contributes documentation and bug fixes to core BioPerl modules, showing attention to reproducibility and developer experience. He also has practical blockchain and multi-coin exchange development experience, reflecting a rare mix of computational biology and distributed-systems know-how. Trained with a PhD in Bioinformatics from Cambridge and entrepreneurial training at Judge Business School, he turns complex research requirements into pragmatic, deployable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ignite, Entrepreneurship, Ignite, Entrepreneurship at Cambridge Judge Business SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of CambridgeMaster of Research, Bioinformatics, Master of Research, Bioinformatics at University of York
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Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
bioperl10
perl10
scripting10
documentation10
testing8
admin7
database7
databases7
database-administration7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
bioperl/bioperl-live
Aug 2010 - Apr 2011
Core BioPerl 1.x code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:17 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributes to documentation improvements and bug fixes related to the BioPerl library. They clarified documentation for core modules like `Bio::RangeI` and addressed inconsistencies in code examples. Their work includes fixing a bug in the `Build.PL` script, related to the test suite. Furthermore, the user refactored and corrected the usage message for the `bp_seqfeature_load.PLS` script, demonstrating knowledge of script functionalities and user interface elements.
bioperlpdb-filesbiologytoolkitbioinformatics
dbolser/lnd
Apr 2018 - Aug 2021
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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