Peter Freeman
Lecturer In Healthcare Sciences at The University of Manchester
Chorley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Freeman is a lecturer in Healthcare Sciences (Genomics Bioinformatics) at the University of Manchester with nine years of research and teaching experience and a PhD from the University of Leicester. He is the creator and lead developer of VariantValidator, a widely used tool for validating and normalizing genetic variant descriptions, demonstrating a rare blend of software engineering and domain expertise in genomics. His career spans academic research roles and applied quality assurance work, giving him strong practical grounding in lab standards, data quality, and reproducible bioinformatics. Based in Chorley, UK, he focuses on building reliable tools that bridge clinical genetics and computational accuracy. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic developer-researcher who turns complex nomenclature and standards into user-friendly, production-ready software.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), BSc (Hons) at The University of ManchesterPHD, PHD at University of Leicester
Github Skills (44)
ncbi10
genome-analysis10
docker-container10
sequencing10
docker9
rest9
transcript9
bioinformatics9
sequence9
rest-api9
genomics9
genome8
validate8
parse8
sequence-alignment8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openvar/variantFormatter
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 25 commits in 3 years 2 months
openvar/populate_vvdb
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Code used to populate the validator database used by VV
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
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