About
Me
I’m currently employed as a statistical bioinformatician with CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences. Before that, I worked as a research officer in computational biology in the Kobe lab at the University of Queensland. And before that I spent 6 years working on microbial genome projects at the University of New South Wales. My research passion is enabling biological discovery using genome-scale analysis and the computational tools required to do it.
I find an increasing proportion of my time is spent discussing ways in which web technology can facilitate communication and data sharing between researchers. A lot of this happens here and at Nodalpoint, which I have co-run with Greg Tyrelle since about 2001. You can also find me at all the usual social networks.
Any opinions expressed here are mine, not those of my employer.
The blog
In general, I don’t go back and revise old posts. If you’ve come here via a Google search for PHP background processes, YouTube sound in Firefox or installing Ubuntu from a USB stick (my 3 most viewed posts), be aware that these (and similar) posts are out of date and probably no longer relevant. Think about the date of the post before leaving a comment.
If you’re commenting for the first time, your comment will go to a moderation queue. Once approved, future comments should appear straight away. Be aware that comments containing multiple URLs frequently require approval or worse, fall into the spam queue.
You can contact me via the contact form (left sidebar menu), but I can’t guarantee a response; particularly if your query is answerable using a quick Google search or you want me to write code for you.
