The ELIXIR Hub is pleased to announce that Andy Jenkinson has joined the ELIXIR Hub as a visitor to help develop ELIXIR’s data management architecture and activities.
As a Visitor in the ELIXIR Hub, Andy will be looking across the ELIXIR platforms and use cases to deliver a proposal for an architecture that supports effective data distribution to users across ELIXIR Nodes and cloud environments. This will involve establishing common metadata requirements for data that can be used to support the replication of data into HPC & cloud environments, or mechanisms to aid the downstream integration of up-to-date reference data.
With a degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from the University of Leeds, Andy has extensive experience in life science data management. After working on the Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Andy joined EMBL-EBI in 2007 where he worked on the Ensembl data resource and co-ordinated efforts around the Distributed Annotation System for integrating genomic data. Since then, he has worked on a number of projects involving data integration and web services, notably leading the development of the EMBL-EBI RDF Platform. Most recently, Andy was involved in an ELIXIR Pilot Action to integrate proteomics data using EUDAT technology.