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Simon Boardman Trainee Bioinformatician

Simon Boardman talks about the great opportunities and challenges facing bioinformatics

Meet Simon!

Simon Boardman – Trainee Clinical Scientist Genomics Bioinformatician – chats to Ang Davies on the future of bioinformatics – both the exciting opportunities and also areas of focus.

Simon describes the excitement of working at the bleeding edge of the delivery of clinical genomics, adapting and implementing new next generation sequencing bioinformatics pipelines is a routine part of his role. As is learning from his counterparts working in research, but more recently bioinformaticians within healthcare are working much more closely with industrial providers of clinical bioinformatics pipelines ensuring that they are fit-for–purpose and can integrate with laboratory systems and processes and deliver a clinical grade quality service.

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Can you find some commercial solution providers for next generation sequencing analysis, what do they offer?

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