Andrew Brian Clegg

Position: Senior Research Associate
Institution: University College London
Email: firstname.lastname@uclmail.net

This ste is archived from mid 2008.

I have left it here for posterity, but it is seriously out of date. Please refer to my new site at biotext.org.uk.

Research interests

The focus of my current research is informatics methods for clinical and public health guidelines: curation tools for systematic reviewers, formal modeling methods for making the evidence base computable, and interactive delivery of results and recommendations through digital media.

My PhD thesis (supervisor: Adrian Shepherd) is on the use of computational-linguistic methods for extracting structured information from unstructured texts (e.g. molecular biology research abstracts and journal papers).

More details about these and other projects can be found here; information about the MPL syntactic pattern matching language and various other datasets and code examples can be found here.

Teaching

I have developed an intensive training course entitled Software Projects for New Researchers: a Crash Course. This is aimed at PhD students and postdocs from a bioscience background who are embarking on research projects with a significant software development component, particularly in Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Structural Biology.

After it has been taught for the first time, the materials for the course will be made available under an open-access licence. Check back here for news.

I supervise practical sessions for students on Birkbeck's MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology course, covering biocomputing methods, Perl and Java programming, SQL and relational databases, and XML. I have also given revision lectures about Perl, and co-supervised MSc projects.

Other activities

Here are some other events and activities I've been involved in.

I was on the organising committee for the BioText London workshop, held in November 2005 by the Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics.
From time to time, I DJ at various clubs and parties including Slaughterhaus Five and 1986.
I write music reviews occasionally for Connexion Bizarre and Freq, and the now sadly-defunct Aural Pressure.
Every so often you can find me climbing up the walls at the Castle.

A note on copyright

I found the rather neat animated gif in the top left of this page on one of my computers when trawling for images to use. Its provenance has been lost in the mists of time. Does anyone know where it might have come from? Please let me know if you believe it might breach someone's copyright, and I'll ~~reluctantly~~ gladly remove it.