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Has his first Ensembl hive running to help me streamline and optimise the running…

By Sander Timmer | August 22, 2011 | Comments 0 Comment

Has his first Ensembl hive running to help me streamline and optimise the running of large amounts of sequential and parallel jobs, so far this looks awesome!

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eHive production system
eHive production system. Introduction. This is a distributed processing system based on ‘autonomous agents’ and the behavioural structure of honey bees. It implements all functionality of both…

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Amazing statistic from yesterdays BBC the code; when city size doubles the per capita…

By Sander Timmer | August 11, 2011 | Comments 1 comment

Amazing statistic from yesterdays BBC the code; when city size doubles the per capita income and creativity increases by 15%.

Entertaining show loaded with amazing facts about how math is running and shaping our world and behaviour, definitely worth watching!

BBC – The Code
Cracking The Code. Get tips about the maths, puzzles and games behind The Code. The Ultimate Challenge is here! by Adrian Hon – Gamesmaster on Wed 10 August; The Final Frontier! by Marcus du Sautoy on…

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The last images that Tim Hetherington ever shot

By Sander Timmer | July 26, 2011 | Comments 0 Comment

Another war zone, this time Libya.

Witness to War – Newsweek
Three months ago, photographer Tim Hetherington was killed by Gaddafi’s forces in Libya. These are his final images.

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Amazing picture from the Puyehue volcano in southern Chile

By Sander Timmer | July 10, 2011 | Comments 1 comment

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Sander Timmer was tagged in Sander Timmer's album.

By Sander Timmer | June 30, 2011 | Comments 0 Comment

Sander Timmer was tagged in Sander Timmer's album.

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Genetic Association on Human skeleton features obtained from MRI scans

By Sander Timmer | May 17, 2011

About me

I am a Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft in the World-Wide Data Insights CTO office focusing on cloud solutions for the Internet-of-Things, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. I obtained my PhD at the University of Cambridge specialising in Big Data Biology while being based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

In my previous "academic life", I was working in Ewan Birney's research group. My main subject was understanding non-coding variation using genome-wide molecular assays, like FAIRE and CTCF, onto Human cell line populations. Another research interest was identification of whole-body phenotypes in Human MRI scans using Machine Learning techniques.

Furthermore, I'm the co-founder of Rijschoolvergelijker. The largest driving school comparison website in the Netherlands with European ambitions.