Who is Keith Bradnam?
I am a Digital Transformation Manager at The Royal College of Psychiatrists in London, and I no longer have any direct involvement with genomics or bioinformatics. However…
I first started my career in bioinformatics back in 1993 as a Masters student at the University of Manchester. This led to a PhD looking at eukaryotic genome evolution which was followed by some work on crop genome databases at the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC). I then spent four years working on WormBase at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
This led to a long, and happy, time working as a Postdoc and then an Associate Project Scientist in the laboratory of Ian Korf at the UC Davis Genome Center. During this time I worked on many different genomics projects, most notably the two Assemblathon projects. It was also during this time that I started this blog and developed more of an interest in science communication.
You can see my ImpactStory page for a more detailed overview of my publications and other scientific output.
As I have left the world of science research, new posts on this blog are now quite rare.
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- jabba
- genome assembly
- featured
- cegma
- publishing
- bioinformatics
- duplicate names
- papers
- sequencing
- uc davis
- gender bias
- nomenclature
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- almost jabba
- open science
- google scholar
- documentation
- conferences
- unix
- comedy
- unclear
- surveys
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- scicomm
- n50
- sam
- unpronounceable
- draft genomes
- take-home message
- link rot
- BLAST
- databases
- illumina
- coding
- orcid
- training
- software
- bowtie
- competition
- anti-jabba
- journals
- fasta
- wormbase
- assembly
- tophat
- posters
- busco
- interview
- isoform prediction
- presentation
- ngs must die
- docker
- bioboxes
- bionanogenomics
- trust no one
- notjabba
- events
- python
- github
- figshare
- altmetrics
- galaxy
- when is a genome complete
- frontlinegenomics
- branding
- blog
- pacbio
- big data
- supplements
- read mapping
- book
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- oxford nanopore
- linux
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- blogging
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- proteins
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- blast
- excel
- bootcamp
- default parameters
- satire
- trinity
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Financial Disclaimer
From time to time I write about companies in the biotechnology sector, particularly companies that develop sequencing technologies. I do not own, and have never owned, shares in any biotechnology company. Nor do I have any other vested interest in such companies that might lead to a conflict of interest.