Building a COVID App

Jack Sleight & Dominic Pearce, Fios Genomics ( www.fiosgenomics.com )

Jack:

I’ll ‘show and tell’ my covid Scotland app that I developed using the Shiny package in R. I’ll aim to:

Briefly introduce how Shiny works and how it aims to makes web development easy for novices like myself Explain the data sources, how the app manipulates the data and updates daily Walk through the app itself describing its basic structure and the motivation behind the design Jack’s Bio Jack has been a Bioinformatician since October 2019 involved in a range of projects from profiling of disease vs. normal tissue using gene expression data, to utilising gene expression and whole genome sequencing data to try and identify novel biomarkers or gene signatures related to drug response in diseases such as breast cancer. He holds bioinformatics degrees from Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities.

Here’s a brief interview with Jack about the app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L165H0EYR5s

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Dominic:

The role of visualisation in defining immune cell subsets for single-cell RNA sequencing data

Bio: Dominic is a Senior Bioinformatics Developer building tools for and analysing genomics data on cancer, drug development, machine learning and statistics. He holds bioscience degrees from Nottingham, Leicester and a PhD from Edinburgh University, ‘Breast cancer heterogeneity within the neoadjuvant window’.

N.b. The event link will be published and sent to attendees beforehand.

People involved

• Uta Hinrichs (Google Scholar)
• Benjamin Bach (Google Scholar)
• Brendan Hill