Tony Burdett
Director at BioFAIR UK
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTony Burdett is a Director leading BioFAIR, the UKRI-funded federated research infrastructure for UK life sciences, bringing over two decades of experience across life sciences, bioinformatics and software engineering. He has a long track record at EMBL-EBI managing teams and high-profile services such as the GWAS Catalog, Biosamples and the Ontology Lookup Service, combining technical leadership with hands-on architecture and application development. Tony is a pragmatic advocate for FAIR data and culture change, specialising in API-first integration and semantic web technologies to make complex biomedical data interoperable and reusable. His background in medicine, biomedical sciences and an MRes in Bioinformatics gives him a rare ability to bridge clinical and technical perspectives when designing large-scale data management solutions. He is known for delivering enterprise-grade metadata and database integrations while optimising scarce resources and mentoring multidisciplinary teams.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MRes, Bioinformatics, MRes, Bioinformatics at Newcastle University
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Github Skills (72)
infrastructure10
gene-expression10
owl10
microscopy10
catalog10
ontology-mapping10
querying10
gwas10
atlas9
biomedical9
owl-api9
neo4j8
diff-tool8
galaxy8
metadata8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tburdett/owl2json
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
EBISPOT/zooma
Oct 2013 - Feb 2017
ZOOMA - Optimal Ontology Mapping Application. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/spot/zooma.
Contributions:554 commits, 1 PR, 78 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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