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Adam Witney
PeerJ Editor & Reviewer
470 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 70
Editor 400

Contributions by subject area

Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Microbiology
Genomics
Infectious Diseases
Computational Science
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Data Science
Molecular Biology

Adam A Witney

PeerJ Editor & Reviewer

Summary

Adam's research interests span the fields of computational analysis of complex datasets, such as microarray data, next generation sequencing (NGS) and genomics data, and the design and implementation of biological databases.

Since 2001 Adam has been the lead bioinformatics scientist in the Wellcome Trust funded bacterial microarray group (BµG@S) in the Institute of Infection and Immunity. There, he was responsible for designing multiple pan genome pathogen microarrays.

Currently, he plays a central role in multiple collaborative projects and activities across several research centres and institutes within St George's, University of London and St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, as well as externally.

Specifically, Adam is developing computational pipelines for the implementation of NGS analysis within the context of clinical microbiology, and has applied these to various pathogens. such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. He is also involved in various research projects investigating the genomics of Neisseria gonorrhoea and Klebsiella pneumoniae in clinical samples.

He is also the lead architect and software developer on several database systems currently implemented within St George’s NHS Trust Infection Control and within research projects in the university.

Bioinformatics Computational Biology Databases Genomics Infectious Diseases Microbiology Molecular Biology Parasitology Public Health Tuberculosis

Editing Journals

Work details

Reader in Bioinformatics

St George's, University of London
Institute of Infection and Immunity

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 4
  • Reviewed 2

Academic Editor on

May 24, 2023
minSNPs: an R package for the derivation of resolution-optimised SNP sets from microbial genomic data
Kian Soon Hoon, Deborah C. Holt, Sarah Auburn, Peter Shaw, Philip M. Giffard
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15339 PubMed 37250706
March 29, 2022
NanoForms: an integrated server for processing, analysis and assembly of raw sequencing data of microbial genomes, from Oxford Nanopore technology
Anna Czmil, Michal Wronski, Sylwester Czmil, Marta Sochacka-Pietal, Michal Cmil, Jan Gawor, Tomasz Wołkowicz, Dariusz Plewczynski, Dominik Strzalka, Michal Pietal
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13056 PubMed 35368340
July 21, 2020
Genotypic characterization and genome comparison reveal insights into potential vaccine coverage and genealogy of Neisseria meningitidis in military camps in Vietnam
Trang Thu Le, Thach Xuan Tran, Long Phi Trieu, Christopher M. Austin, Huong Minh Nguyen, Dong Van Quyen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9502 PubMed 32742791
August 29, 2018
BioWorkbench: a high-performance framework for managing and analyzing bioinformatics experiments
Maria Luiza Mondelli, Thiago Magalhães, Guilherme Loss, Michael Wilde, Ian Foster, Marta Mattoso, Daniel Katz, Helio Barbosa, Ana Tereza R. de Vasconcelos, Kary Ocaña, Luiz M.R. Gadelha
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5551 PubMed 30186700

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April 2, 2018
PlasmidSeeker: identification of known plasmids from bacterial whole genome sequencing reads
Märt Roosaare, Mikk Puustusmaa, Märt Möls, Mihkel Vaher, Maido Remm
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4588 PubMed 29629246
May 18, 2017
StrainSeeker: fast identification of bacterial strains from raw sequencing reads using user-provided guide trees
Märt Roosaare, Mihkel Vaher, Lauris Kaplinski, Märt Möls, Reidar Andreson, Maarja Lepamets, Triinu Kõressaar, Paul Naaber, Siiri Kõljalg, Maido Remm
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3353 PubMed 28533988