Richard Leggett
Co-Founder & CTO at Agnos Biosciences
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Leggett is a computational biologist and software engineer with 15 years of experience leading development of real-time and in situ metagenomics tools. As Group Leader at the Earlham Institute and Co-Founder & CTO of Agnos Biosciences, he bridges academic research and product-minded engineering to deliver surveillance solutions with clinical and environmental impact. His background spans genome assembly, nanopore sequencing methods, and robust bioinformatics pipelines, underpinned by a PhD in Computational Biology and an earlier foundation in physics and advanced computing. Richard’s career includes industry-grade systems work—from embedded C and enterprise back-end engines to scalable research software—highlighting a rare blend of low-level engineering and high-throughput genomics expertise.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Physics, BSc (Hons) Physics at University of WarwickPhD Computational Biology, PhD Computational Biology at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (15)
mate10
sequencing10
crossword9
bioinformatics8
python7
conda7
package-management6
classifier6
bioconda5
assembly5
blast4
redbean4
metagenomics3
sequence-alignment3
graph2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
richardmleggett/adaptive_sampling
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
richardmleggett/NanoOK
Jul 2014 - Oct 2022
Analysis tool for Nanopore sequencing data
Contributions:3 releases, 249 commits, 28 PRs in 8 years 5 months
sequencing
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