Simon Perkins
Associate Director
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Perkins is an Associate Director and data scientist based in Cambridge with 10 years’ experience applying bioinformatics and clinical LC-MS expertise to drug discovery and translational research. He combines hands-on proteomics and metabolomics analysis with software engineering—building R/Python tools, R/Shiny visualisations and mass-spectrometry processing pipelines—often turning analytical workflows into reusable software for collaborators. At AstraZeneca and previously in academic facilities and industry (Tessella, Waters, Paterson Institute, Sanofi), he has led projects spanning proteomics, genomics, network analysis and machine learning, bridging wet-lab methods and computational delivery. Known for pragmatic communication with scientists, he emphasizes interactive exploration (Shiny) to make complex results accessible to non-specialists. A former developer of MS raw-data compression and bespoke proteomics utilities, he brings both deep domain knowledge and a track record of shipping durable research software.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Bioinformatics, MSc, Bioinformatics at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (2)
psi6
routines6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
slurmclassic/maxquant.tools
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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