Howdy, I'm Ben 🤠


Bioinformatician
Bioinformatician
Data scientist
Data scientist
Developer
Developer

Software

I like to make useful, reliable, and correct open source tools with various excellent people to help nerds do science.

I also helped to make some data science tools during the pandemic.

Science

During my short academic career, I think I did some particularly cool science:

Variations in the oral microbiome are associated with depression in young adults

Open science is the bee's knees, so I made sure the code and data were publicly available.

I have also published other work, mostly involving data science or genomic data.

Patents

Although I don't think intellectual property should exist, patents are sometimes used as a signal that academic work has translational potential or is especially impactful, so I thought it would be sensible to include this:

A method of diagnosing depression in a subject (PCT/EP2021/065987)

I hope that I never have to speak with a patent lawyer again.