Sophie Shaw
Lead Bioinformatician For Research And Development
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSophie Shaw is a Lead Bioinformatician with a decade of hands-on experience translating next-generation sequencing data into diagnostic and research insights. Based in Cardiff, she leads R&D at the All Wales Medical Genomics Service after progressing from bioinformatics roles supporting diverse genomics projects—RNA-seq, genome assembly, ChIP-seq and metagenomics—across academia and clinical settings. Sophie combines technical pipeline development and teaching, having delivered international workshops and trained researchers to own their analyses, reflecting a strong commitment to capacity building. Her PhD work on allelic expression imbalance and subsequent projects show a rare mix of wet-lab understanding and computational rigor, enabling practical interpretation of complex datasets for translational outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, Chemistry (A), Mathematics (A), Psychology (A), Human Biology (B), A Levels, Chemistry (A), Mathematics (A), Psychology (A), Human Biology (B) at Bridgwater CollegeFirst, BSc Molecular Genetics, First, BSc Molecular Genetics at University of Exeter
Github Skills (72)
rna-seq8
upsetr8
seq8
guppy8
pipeline7
bcftools7
samtools7
genomics6
spp6
genomes6
variants6
bioinformatics6
venn-diagram6
sequence6
hgt6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AWGL/copy_tsca
Aug 2021 - Nov 2024
Copying files for TruSight Cancer workflow
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 4 months
workflowcopyingcancer
AWGL/IlluminaQC-WREN
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 14 PRs in 3 years
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