Mr Sam Fletcher (he/them)

Sam Fletcher is a Research Software Engineer in the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative, based in the University of Exeter.

Previously, Sam worked as a graduate research assistant under Eilis Hannon in the Complex Disease Epigenomics Group (CDEG), where he worked on Hidden Markov modelling of chromatin states and developing software for long read cell type deconvolution. Whilst working as a GRA, Sam built up knowledge in computer science and molecular biology, combining this with his skills from a masters in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham.

Now Sam works in the Data Coordination Centre (DCC) in the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative (FGx), where he aims to assist research groups within Exeter, Cambridge, London, Oxford and Edinburgh with maintaining their software. This not only includes software development, but also providing training and assistance with best practices such as: documentation, version control, testing, packaging and much more (that are too technical to get into here). Over the coming years, Sam will also look to work with other members of the DCC to build up an ecompassing data portal that harmonises the metadata collected for the datasets produced by the institutions part of FGx.