Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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I assert that I am skilled in 3 key areas. Firstly in management (people, projects…

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  • The many levels of data management maturity
    Jan 6, 2023

    The many levels of data management maturity

    After managing scientific data sets for many years, I have taken a little time to reflect on the maturity and rigour…

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  • Advisory board Member for Bioexcel centre of excellence in computational biomolecular research.

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    I was pleased to serve as a scientific / industry advisor to the Bioexcel project. This helped to establish a European centre for excellence in computational biomolecular research.

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  • Invited member of advisory panel for Nature scientific data

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    I greatly enjoyed my time on the advisory panel related to the creation of the journal Nature "Scientific Data". This is one of a new generation of 'data journals' where appropriate credit and reference can be provided to the creators or guardians of innovative and important data sets.

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  • Lead organiser for Molecular Informatics Open Source Software (MIOSS) Conference

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    Second conference of molecular informatics open source software (MIOSS).
    At this conference I was presented with the Blue Obelisk for contributions to open source software.

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  • Chair of Elixir industry advisory committee

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    It was an honour to chair the industry advisory committee for the Elixir infrastructure project. This involved cross company collaboration, networking and leadership aimed at securing the pan European open access data infrastructure.

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  • Chair of scientific advisory board for OpenPHACTS IMI project

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    Coordinate and lead scientific assessment and feedback to technical and project staff on the
    Open pharmacological spaces (OPS) semantic web data integration project.

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  • Accelerating Discovery by Mining and Visualising Integrated Chemogenomics Data

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    This Syngenta and Rothamsted colaboration project, has a focus on extending the Ondex data integration toolkit by adding 'chemical intelligence' to the existing software toolkit. This will provide enhanced capabilities for chemical structure visualisation , and the ability to link together datasets of (for example) internal and external chemical structure repositories. External datasets will include public chemical bioactivity resources such as the ChEMBL resource hosted at EMBL-EBI. This will…

    This Syngenta and Rothamsted colaboration project, has a focus on extending the Ondex data integration toolkit by adding 'chemical intelligence' to the existing software toolkit. This will provide enhanced capabilities for chemical structure visualisation , and the ability to link together datasets of (for example) internal and external chemical structure repositories. External datasets will include public chemical bioactivity resources such as the ChEMBL resource hosted at EMBL-EBI. This will enhance the interpretation of internal chemical structure information, providing links to public information on genes and proteins, allowing chemists and biologists greater insight into the mechanisms of bioactivity.
    As the Ondex toolkit is available under an open source license, all enhancements will also be made freely available to the scientific community as open source. This is intended to drive the adoption and uptake of the new tools and capabilities and contribute to open innovation.

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  • Lead organiser for Systems, Pathways, Interactions, Networks Open Source Software (SPIN-OSS) conference

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    As a follow up to the first MIOSS event in 2011, I organised an open source software conference for tools related to biological systems, pathways, interactions and networks.
    Thanks to the EMBL-EBI industry program for support towards this event.

  • Lead organiser for Molecular Informatics Open Source Software (MIOSS) Conference

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    I conceived and organised the first molecular informatics open source software (MIOSS) conference in 2011. Thanks to the Wellcome Trust for support to make this innovative event a reality.

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  • Founding member of Oracle Life Science User Group (OLSUG)

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    User group aimed at establishing excellence is using Oracle tools for life science data storage and applications.

  • Member of steering committee for Elixir EU FP7 Project 2007-2011

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    It was a privilege to work with EMBL-EBI senior leadership on establishing the Elixir pan European data infrastructure.

    I was Chair of Elixir work package 10, covering plants, agriculture, small molecules and environment.
    Co-chair of Elixir work package 3, on industry needs and participation.

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