I am a Group Leader and Lecturer at the University of Leeds. My lab uses synthetic biology to understand and engineer bacterial cells for a range of applications. For those interested in our research: have a look at my group and university pages.
Building software tools that improve the accuracy, reproducibility and automation of our data analysis workflows is central to our research. Our major contributions to date are: (1) in developing software that allows us to extract real protein numbers from fluorescent protein assay data from plate readers: FPCountR, and (2) in developing a web application that allows users new to programming to build their own data tidying function to convert any format of 'messy' exported data into 'tidy' data: the Parsley app.
In addition to software, we use GitHub to collate and share useful resources.
- 🔬 Wet Lab Resources is a list of online resources on DNA part sequences, molecular biology questions or basic protocols for handling DNA/RNA/proteins and E. coli.
- 💻 Coding Resources is a list of resources helpful for learning to code, centred around the R language, but also including learning Git/GitHub for version control, and Markdown for text editing in coding-friendly formats.
New lab members start here.