Dr Alannah King

Bioinformatician

Bioinformatician working on the GPS project, helping to develop an internal pipeline to process data coming into the GPS project.

Previously, I did my PhD in the lab of Edmund Kunji at the MRC MBU, developing novel software to analyse transport proteins using a generalised framework of pseudosymmetry. I also provided bioinformatic support to other lab members and external collaborators.

Projects

• Development of new modules for an internal GPS pipeline to analyse samples as they arrive.
  • Goal of greater efficiency and speed when constructing lineages
  • Creating a Nextflow module for annotation.

• A GPSC card game based around the populat “Top Trumps”, to be used as an outreach and engagement activity.
  • Images and support from global GPS collaborators.
  • Scores taken from real data!

• Comparison of methods for pneumococcal genome clustering
  • MLST vs cgMLST vs GPSC
• Analysis of pneumococcal serotype 12F.
  • Population structure
  • AMR profiling
  • Spatio-temporal analysis

My timeline

• Bioinformatician, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• PhD Student, MRC MBU, University of Cambridge

• Natural Sciences (Pathology) at the University of Cambridge