Peter Rice
Director Of Customer Experience at tranSMART Foundation
North Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter Rice is a bioinformatics software leader with 13+ years of experience directing customer experience, open-source development and translational research platforms. He has been a driving force behind EMBOSS (over a million lines of code) and is the current lead developer and release manager for tranSMART, combining hands‑on C and multi-language engineering with data curation and QA for clinical and COVID-19 public datasets. Peter bridges academic and industry worlds—leading projects at EBI, Imperial College and the Wellcome Sanger Institute—while running a consulting practice that brings enterprise-grade support to open bioinformatics tools. Known for pragmatic adoption of Grid and Cloud computing in life sciences, he pairs deep technical breadth (C, Fortran, Perl, Groovy, Java, R, PostgreSQL) with long-term stewardship of community software and standards.
13 years of coding experience
B.Sc., Biochemistry, B.Sc., Biochemistry at University of LiverpoolUniversity College London
English, German, French
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Github Skills (37)
genetics10
ecology10
biology10
linked-open-data10
genetic10
data-management10
knowledge-management10
analytical10
foundationdb9
database9
ats8
digital-humanities8
r-package8
configurations7
relational-algebra7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
transmart/transmart-test
May 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:42 commits, 11 pushes in 3 years
testingfunctional-teststransmart
tranSMART-Foundation/transmart
May 2014 - Dec 2022
tranSMART is a knowledge management platform that enables scientists to develop and refine research hypotheses by investigating correlations between genetic and phenotypic data, and assessing their analytical results in the context of published literature and other work. http://transmartfoundation.org/
Contributions:1710 commits, 11 PRs, 189 pushes in 8 years 7 months
scientistslinked-open-datatransmartgeneticsknowledge
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