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Pipelines others can re-run
Nextflow and nf-core workflows built to community standards, tested with nf-test, and FAIR from the first commit.
$ whoami
I build programs, games & science.
Hi, I’m Chris: a bioinformatician around the world, but often in London. I write reproducible pipelines and software, make games, study how evolution works, and travel whenever I can.
- nextflow
- nf-core
- nf-test
- docker
- singularity
- conda
- unix / bash
- R
- python
- perl
- git
- RNA-Seq
- proteomics
- synteny
- gene families
- phylogenetics
- metabarcoding
- alternative splicing
12peer-reviewed papers + 3 preprints
6open-source pipelines, nf-core standards
£612kBBSRC programme · lead bioinformatician
published inNature · Nature Communications · PNAS · Science Advances
// what i bring
all workSkills, from raw reads to results
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Comparative genomics
Genome and annotation quality, synteny, gene-family expansion and contraction, phylogenetics and molecular evolution.
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Multi-omics, end to end
RNA-Seq, proteomics, genomic and phenotypic data, from alternative splicing to machine-learning models of caste.
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Teaching & community
nf-core hackathons, multi-day Nextflow workshops, and contributions to the official Nextflow training material.
// pipelines
github.com/eco-flowPipelines I’ve built
$ nextflow run eco-flow/genomeqc
Genome quality
genomeqc
Compare the quality of many genome assemblies and their annotations in one run. Now part of nf-core, and described in a 2026 preprint.
$ nextflow run eco-flow/synteny
Genome structure
synteny
Synteny analysis across genomes: trace conserved gene order and chromosome rearrangements between species.
$ nextflow run eco-flow/excon
Gene families
excon
Measure gene-family expansion and contraction across a phylogeny of species.
+ metabarcoding:dietary_ampliconspollen-metabarcodingnanoporemetabarcodingtaxonomic profiling from amplicon and nanopore reads
// on github
github.com/chriswyatt1What I’m writing
| language | all time | last 3 months |
|---|---|---|
| Nextflow | 49% | 34% |
| Perl | 11% | 0.9% |
| R | 8.4% | 11% |
| Dockerfile | 8.2% | 2.4% |
| Python | 7.8% | 19% |
| HTML | 6.8% | 17% |
| CSS | 3.2% | 10% |
| Other | 5.2% | 5.5% |
Commits per week914 in the last 12 months
Share of my commits by language across public repos, each commit split by lines changed · updated 2026-09-23
// off the clock
Wasps, wild places & travel
~/wasps
Why wasps?
They’re one of the best places to study how societies evolve, and they deserve a better reputation. A field guide to the creatures I’ve worked on, from paper wasps to amphioxus.
wasps & nature~/travel
Places I’ve called home
6 places I’ve called home across 4 countries, plus 226 more I’ve visited.
travel~/notes · latest
How this site works
A static Astro site on GitHub Pages, publications that update themselves from ORCID, and a map that flies between the places I've lived.
read the note// publications
all 15Selected papers
- 2026
- 2023Social complexity, life-history and lineage influence the molecular basis of castes in vespid wasps
Nature Communications, 14(1), 1046
- 2022
- 2018Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation
Nature, 564(7734), 64-70