The Eco-flow team is currently comprised of three core researchers/bioinformatians:
Chris is a senior bioinformatician on the project, with a background in omic technologies and pipeline development.
Professor Seirian Sumner is a leading researcher in ecology and genomics.
Professor Yannick Wurm is a data scientist expert on genome analysis and evolution. He works with ants and pollinators, and creates intuitive software for comparative genomics.
Simon was a senior bioinformatician on the project, with a background in pipeline development and containerisation. He left in May 2024 to work at Genomics England as a bioinformatics engineer.
BBSRC funded this initiative
See our grant here
This is part of the Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund
Seqera sponsors this initiative and provides technical support
UCL (University College London) is the host university of Sumner, Wyatt and our technical lead
Queen Mary university is the host university of Yannick Wurm
Nf-core is an organisation that sets the standards of bioinformatics workflows using Nextflow and is central to the philosophy of our initiative.
To learn more about this initiative or enquire about a collaboration contact:
Chris Wyatt - c . wyatt AT ucl . ac . uk
OR
ecoflow . ucl AT gmail . com