๐ Hi, Iโm @melparker101.
๐ Iโm interested in bioinformatics/computational medicine/systems biology.
๐ฑ Iโm currently developing my Linux, Python and R skills.
๐ I'm a massive fan of Nextflow WMS.
๐ฅ My new interest is machine learning.
Projects have included:
- Cancer systems biology
- Cancer drug response prediction
- Integration and annotation of scRNA-seq datasets
- Variant calling from RNA seq data
- Prioritising etiological cell-types (ovary and adipose cells)
- Virus diagnostics (RNA respiratory viruses)
- Bacterial antimicrobial-resistance outbreaks
Sequencing data handled:
- Illumina scRNA/snRNA, bulk RNA, DNA
- Nanopore DNA
Diseases/pathogens researched:
- Neuroblastoma
- SARS-CoV-2
- Obesity and cardiometabolic diseases
- Female infertility
- Pan-cancer
- Pan-virus
- Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae