Peter Briggs
Research Software Engineer at University of Manchester
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Briggs is a Research Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and deploying scientific software, primarily in bioinformatics and structural biology. He combines deep hands-on programming in Python, C and Fortran with practical expertise in HPC deployment, automated testing, and package management—evidenced by his contributions automating Bioconda recipes for many bioinformatics tools. At the University of Manchester he develops in-house pipelines, manages sequencing data transfers and QC, and deploys platforms like Galaxy to streamline NGS workflows for scientist teams. His background includes senior roles at Diamond Light Source and CCP4 where he translated complex scientific pipelines into user-facing tools and automated build-and-test systems. Trained as a computational physicist (PhD) and fluent across UNIX environments, he excels at bridging developer workflows and researcher needs while quietly improving reproducibility and installability of scientific software.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Theoretical Physics, B.Sc., Theoretical Physics at Newcastle UniversityPh.D., Computational Physics, Ph.D., Computational Physics at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (11)
bioinformatics10
sh10
conda10
script10
bash10
shell10
package-management10
scripting10
automated-build9
python7
perl5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Feb 2018 - Sep 2021
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 17 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributes to the bioconda-recipes repository by adding and modifying recipes for various bioinformatics tools and software packages, including Cistrome-CEAS, primer3, pal_finder, pandaseq, Qiime, SPAdes, blast-legacy, vsearch, fasta-splitter, and RDP_classifier. Their work involves creating build scripts, patching existing code, and adjusting installation procedures to ensure these tools can be packaged and installed using the conda package manager. The user also addresses compatibility issues, disables builds on specific platforms, and updates existing recipes.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
fls-bioinformatics-core/bedUtils
Aug 2011 - Aug 2012
Contributions:63 commits in 11 months
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