Wellcome Sanger Institute
Information Technology Group
Science Solutions
Informatics and Digital Solutions

Sequence Analysis and Management (SAM)

Science Support - Informatics and Digital Solutions

The Sequence Analysis and Management team contributes to various software packages for processing DNA sequence data, including samtools, htslib, biobambam and the Staden package.

We also submit raw sequencing data to the EBI on behalf of the research groups.

Our people

Group lead

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Robert Davies

Senior Scientific Manager

Robert joined the Sanger Centre (as it was then) in 1994. Since then he has worked on robotics, Pathogen assemblies, a variety of database systems, archiving tools and sequence processing pipelines.

Core team

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James Bonfield

Principal Software Developer

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Andrew Whitwham

Senior Software Developer

Previous team members

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John Marshall

Senior Software Developer

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Valeriu Ohan

Senior Software Developer

Related groups

 

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High Performance Algorithm Group (HPAG)

Science Solutions - Informatics and Digital Solutions

Many high profile projects such as the Cancer Genome and 1000 Genomes projects need quality assemblies for downstream analysis using 2nd ...
 

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New Pipeline Group (NPG)

Sequencing Informatics

The SAM team is responsible for archival of the data produced by NPG to external repositories, typically the EGA, ENA or ...
 

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Production Software Development

Laboratory Information and Management Systems (LIMS) compute and infrastructure

We create and support the software and systems the Sanger Institute’s scientists rely at every step of their experiments. We ...
 

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Sequence Variation Infrastructure

Human Genetics

Collaborate on development of Samtools and maintenance of the sequencing data format specifications (SAM/BAM/CRAM/BCF/VCF).
 

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Vertebrate Resequencing

Informatics

The Vertebrate Resequencing (VR) team was responsible for handling the informatics and large scale sequencing projects for the Durbin and Adams ...
 
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Programmes and Facilities

 

Programme

Science Solutions

Science Solutions directly partners with the Sanger Institute’s scientists at all levels to anticipate and supply their data science related ...
 

Programme

Informatics and Digital Solutions

We support the Sanger Institute’s mission to deliver innovative and ambitious genomics research at a scale to improve human health ...

Partners

We work with the following groups

External

European Bioinformatics Institute

External

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

External

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

 

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