Valerie Wood
PomBase Project Manager at Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolValerie Wood is an experienced project manager leading PomBase, the fission yeast Model Organism Database, with over 11 years driving biocuration, semantic integration, and community-led curation quality. Based at the University of Cambridge, she combines deep domain expertise—from a D.Sc. in Genomics and a background in bioinformatics—to oversee database infrastructure and curator workflows that serve the research community. A Senior Editor for Genetics (Computational Resources, Software and Databases) and Gene Ontology Council member, she bridges ontology standards and practical curation to ensure interoperable, high-quality annotations. Her career spans major genomics institutions including the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cancer Research UK, giving her rare operational insight into large-scale biological data management. Valuing both technical rigor and community engagement, she has a track record of turning complex sequence and annotation challenges into usable, trusted resources for researchers worldwide.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
D.Sc., Genomics, Sequence analysis and Biocuration, D.Sc., Genomics, Sequence analysis and Biocuration at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (102)
ontology10
metadata10
owl10
ontologies10
genes10
semantics10
yaml10
go10
rdf10
geneontology10
bioinformatics10
monarchinitiative10
genome-annotation10
annotations9
semantic-web9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
japonicusdb/japonicus-curation
May 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:93 pushes, 210 comments, 76 issues in 2 years 5 months
pombase/curation
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 commit, 7 pushes, 6799 comments in 1 day
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