James Procter
Jalview Coordinator
Greater Dundee Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Procter is a bioinformatician and software lead with 13 years’ experience developing and coordinating tools for protein sequence and structure comparison, notably as the long-term coordinator and principal developer of the Jalview alignment visualization project at the University of Dundee. He blends deep domain expertise in sequence/structure analysis, modelling and visualization with practical skills in software engineering, parallelization and distributed systems to deliver research-grade, user-focused scientific software. A PhD chemist with an MSc in computer science, he has translated academic research into reusable tools and webservices and helped build communities through outreach and open-source stewardship. Co-founder and co-chair of the international VIZBI conference series, he also pursues low-level OS hacking and visualization work that bridges systems programming with biological data presentation.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of LeedsBSc, Chemistry, BSc, Chemistry at University of York
Github Skills (121)
blast10
package-management10
genomics10
protein-sequences10
bam10
bioconda10
conda10
bioinformatics10
structural-biology9
pdb-files9
pdb9
computational-biology9
dedicated9
protein-data-bank9
protein-structure9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jalview/jalview-js
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
JavaScript artefacts and deployment documents for JalviewJS
Contributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 6 months
deploymentjavascriptartefacts
foreveremain/beakerx-jalview
Oct 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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