Lester Carter
Data Curator
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLester Carter is a Data Curator and bioinformatics scientist with 10 years of industry experience bridging structural biology and large-scale genomics across academia and biotech. Trained with a doctorate from Oxford, he has led data integration and curation efforts at pharma and AI-driven drug discovery companies (Genentech, Exscientia, Recursion, Isomorphic Labs), specializing in NGS, annotation, LIMS, and cloud-enabled big data pipelines. He pairs hands-on structural expertise (SAXS, crystallography, protein modelling) with production-grade database and portal development to make complex experimental data discoverable and analysis-ready. Known for moving between wet-lab structural projects and computation-heavy integration roles, he excels at translating intricate biological concepts into standardized, machine-actionable datasets. Based in Edinburgh, he brings a track record of enabling discovery teams to accelerate target-to-data workflows in fast-paced research environments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate, Doctorate at University of OxfordDiploma, Diploma at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at The University of Dundee
Github Skills (2)
cancer-genomics10
variants10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
PharmGKB/pgkb-ngs-pipeline
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
PharmGKB/funky-dipper
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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