Simon Cockell
Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Cockell is a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics at Newcastle University with 17 years’ experience translating high-throughput sequencing and proteomics data into biological insight. He combines hands-on software engineering (R/Bioconductor, Python, Bash, SQL, Java, Perl, PHP) with practical database and web development to support multi-disciplinary research across human disease, including psoriasis, NAFLD and epilepsy. His research blends statistical genomics with semantically rich integrated networks to predict drug repurposing opportunities, and he is a co-investigator on the H2020 Repo-Trial project. As former manager of Newcastle’s Bioinformatics Support Unit, he has built and led institutional services that bridge faculty boundaries while maintaining active research and technical contributions. Trained to PhD level in genetics, he pairs deep domain knowledge with a knack for turning complex datasets into reusable tools and reproducible analyses.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons), Biochemistry and Genetics, B.Sc. (Hons), Biochemistry and Genetics at University of NottinghamM.Res., Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, M.Res., Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University of LeedsPh.D., Genetics, Ph.D., Genetics at University of Leicester
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Github Skills (21)
genomics8
wordpress-plugin8
bioinformatics8
sequence-alignment7
wordpress7
gwas7
phylogenetics7
computational-biology7
renderer6
protein-structure6
mathjax6
mathematics6
biopython6
python6
cvs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sjcockell/git-tutorial
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
sjcockell/lockdown-learning
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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