Annabel Cansdale

Annabel Cansdale

Fellow 1st cohort

My interests

  • Pipeline development and workflow management (Snakemake etc.)
  • Containerisation especially conda
  • Metagenomics and the handling of large genomic datasets (+ handling of microbial datasets)
  • The handling of Nanopore sequencing data
  • Target audience is especially PhD/ECRs to attempt to integrate FAIR practices early on.

My work

I’m based at the University of York and I am a Bioinformatician in the Chong Lab specialising in the metagenomics of microbial communities from Anaerobic Digestion. I’m an early career researcher having graduated with an MRes from the Uni in 2020.