Michael Nelson
Research Associate
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Nelson is a research-focused bioinformatician with 13 years' experience applying computational methods to molecular and genetic problems, now working on rare mitochondrial disease at the LifeArc Centre. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from The University of Manchester and has led postdoctoral projects integrating machine learning, UK Biobank analyses, proteomics and phylogenetic approaches to study gene dosage, congenital heart disease and coevolving protein residues. Comfortable across Python, SQL and legacy scripting (Perl/C++), he has a track record of building pipelines that bridge wet lab data and large-scale genomics resources. Colleagues know him for combining rigorous computational technique with practical data wrangling—evidenced by publications and a history of deploying bespoke analysis software to production research groups.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (9)
next-generation-sequencing10
sequencing10
meta10
pipeline9
bioinformatics9
conda8
interpretation2
java2
genomics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bergmanlab/mcclintock
Feb 2014 - Dec 2015
Meta-pipeline to identify transposable element insertions using next generation sequencing data
Contributions:176 commits, 50 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 10 months
next-generationpipelinecondasequencing-datameta
nelson42/test
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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