Tuesday, 20 March 2018

Cambridge Science Festival

I'm looking forward to my first Public Engagement activity at CRUK Cambridge Institute.
This weekend, on Sunday CI will have activities about bioinformatics as well as computing-related activities on a Raspberry pi along with a themed 'Escape Room' @CRUKCambridge @CamBioCampus

Friday, 2 March 2018

I'm back!

Rather a long hiatus in posting here. What have I been doing? I've been involved in Bioinformatics Training for over the last 3 years. First at the Institute of Food Research (Now known as the Quadram Institute) and now at Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Institute.

Bioinformatics is a really excellent example of a STEM-based career. Firstly as we are dealing with living organisms, it involves biological understanding. The sequencing technologies involve a lot of state of the art engineering micro-fluidics, flow-cells and discoveries like the Oxford Nanopore.
The sheer amount of data requires considerable IT resources (Programming, Storage, Clusters) to analyse along with a wealth of techniques from Mathematics and Statistics.