User:MattOates

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Qualifications and Experience
I currently work as Principal Scientist at a company called Congenica ltd who build a clinical diagnosis support platform among other things.

I was awarded my PhD in computational biology in Feb 2015. I worked on looking at Intrinsically disordered proteins in all sequenced genomes, as well as how this has affected the evolution of protein signalling pathways in plants. My thesis can be found via the University of Bristol library which I was awarded a faculty commendation.

In 2009 I was awarded an MRes with Merit in Complexity Sciences with the Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences.

I graduated with a first class honours BSc Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Wales Aberystwyth in 2007. I then went on to work for my old university in the Institute of Geography and Earth Science doing all sorts of computer fun, and working on kinematic terrestrial laser scanning. See http://www.ies.aber.ac.uk/staff/research/matt-oates to find out more. Previously I worked for a year in Plymouth with the Remote Sensing Group, at the Plymouth Marine Laboratories, processing satellite data.

My undergraduate dissertation involved modifying a standard Genetic Algorithm to include the idea of symbiogenesis as a genetic operator; accelerating adoption of useful behaviors in a population of game playing agents. Check out http://www.mattoates.co.uk/work_uni.php for more info ;)

I'm interested in all things quirky and all things SCIENCE! and more so for a combination of the two. If you have any science articles you want me to work on with you, just shout on my talk page.

'''I recently started up the #alife IRC channel on freenode if anyone is interested in coming along and talking about artificial life! irc://irc.freenode.net#alife'''

My Papers
A complete list can be found on Google Scholar

Pages I've Started
I've been absorbing Wikipedia for a long time now, but I figured it's about time I gave something back. The following are my meagre attempts at paying for all the info and entertainment I've gained from reading the wiki!

Wikipedia

 * Coccolithovirus
 * Acrasin

Wikipedia (Simple)
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." ~Albert Einstein I've decided to give up on editing simple Wikipedia, as a lot of people only care about simplicity of language, and not about making accessible content for young people. After other users edits made many of my articles orphaned I've given up caring about the simple community :'[
 * Nuclear_fusion
 * Tritium

Pet Articles
Articles I've randomly decided to watch closely and expand:
 * Fork bomb
 * Deglazing (cooking)
 * Silverfish - Why do people vandalise this so often?
 * Ghost slug

Cool Users

 * Fran aka Spectre
 * Pthag
 * shigs
 * RedAcer

Other Links

 * http://www.mattoates.co.uk

Quirks Of History

 * "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." Western Union internal memo, 1876.


 * "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.


 * "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.


 * "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.


 * "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1 000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1½ tons." Popular Mechanics, March 1949.


 * "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.


 * "But what... is it good for ?" An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.


 * "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olson, president/founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977.