Next Generation Sequencing Data Management

Matthias_Haimel is working as a software engineer for the Ensembl Genomes Team (led by Dr. Paul Kersey) at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton, UK. At the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria, he studied Bioinformatics with a focus on Computer Science and graduated in 2006 after working on his diploma thesis at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland. Starting at the EBI in 2006, he took over the development and production for the International Protein Index and worked in a team on redeveloping the back-end production framework in the Integr8 project. Since 2008 he has worked on the application of next generation sequence assembly algorithms to a variety of genomes and started developing Curtain, a paired-end assembly pipeline for larger genomes.

Affiliation: European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK

David Judge is a Computer Scientist that teaches Bioinformatics since 1985. He runs the Bioinformatics Training Facilty housed at the Department of Genetics in the University of Cambridge, providing the necessary environment for graduate and undergraduate courses, on top of a comprehensive training programme in cooperation with the European Bioinformatics Institute, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência through GTPB. He teaches Bioinformatics in several international training programmes and is regularly invited to teach in many places in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. His course notes and exercises are well known in the international community of Bioinformatics professionals and users, many of which (difficult to count) have had their first contact with Bioinformatics through him.

Affiliation: University of Cambridge, Department of Genetics, Cambridge, UK