Experts in delivering bioinformatics services

GB is a team of specialists who have a passion for all aspects of bioinformatics. Our analysts have a scientific background in either post-doc research or bioinformatics and the engineering team brings state-of-the-art technology from their diverse professional backgrounds.

GB is a private company based in the UK. It was founded in 2004 by Dr Liz Reynolds who identified the need for specialists who could deliver expert bioinformatics services to a diverse audience.

From its inception, GB has provided custom services which are not tied to particular products but instead focus on the challenge of making sense of scientific data according to each client’s specific requirements and organisation.

By having our people joined in one close team we can deliver fantastic solutions quickly in a wide variety of customer contexts. Our work is outcome focussed and we build strong working relationships with our clients, meeting a variety of their needs in one interaction.

Where we need to supplement our in-house expertise we reach out to our network of affiliates who bring world recognised domain specific knowledge.

Our Senior Team

Elizabeth Reynolds
CEO

Liz leads the strategic direction of the company, working alongside clients to ensure that we understand and meet their business needs and scientific requirements. She has served on BBSRC and ELIXIR panels. From her background in diverse research organisations Liz integrates extensive bioinformatics knowledge with scientific, engineering, and business insight to maximize the value of bioinformatics data and tools in a research context.

Stephanie Widdison
Science Director

Stephanie runs the customer facing deliveries of GB services including analysis support to science, and design of applications and data for scientists. Stephanie is an expert in NGS approaches for non-model organism genomics and bioinformatics methods to support research into Lead Generation and Mode of Action and Resistance Research. She provides custom support to research organisations including interaction with scientists, recommending data and methods, providing bespoke analyses, and delivering user training. Stephanie has a scientific background in Immunology and Molecular Biology in both human and animal disease.

Dan Stein
Engineering Director

Dan heads up development at GB, coordinating application and architecture design. Dan is the founder of several small successful startups, having won awards for his work designing machine learning applications in the ed-tech space and most recently AI and recommender systems for GLG Group. He also has a couple of number one records under his belt!

Chris Bishop
Principal Engineer

Chris is a senior development engineer at GB. He is a founder of a successful software consultancy firm and has worked on a wide range of projects from in-flight entertainment to situational awareness systems. He recently worked on an award winning learning record store. He is also a pilot.

Mike Way
Senior Consultant

Mike provides curation and analysis of integrated biological data to support research, encompassing managing large sequence data sets and the annotation of sequencing data such as genomes. Mike also works with the development team to create user-friendly tools to enable scientists to easily access these data. Before starting his role at GB, Mike worked in scientific research completing a BSc and PhD in Biochemistry and Population Genetics respectively.

Rosanna Joyce
Product Manager

Rosanna provides oversight and management of our data and tools solutions. She has a diverse background covering molecular biology, bioinformatics pipeline development and data engineering.

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