👋 Hi, I’m @melparker101.

👀 I’m interested in bioinformatics/computational medicine/systems biology.

🌱 I’m currently developing my Linux, Python and R skills.

💚 I'm a massive fan of Nextflow WMS.

🔥 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