Conor JR Scott

Hello! I am Dr. Conor Scott, a researcher interested in bioinformatic analysis of large biological datasets and a with a passion for making workflows for bioinformatic analysis available and accessible for all. I created this website to share step-by-step guides, workflows, and resources that I have developed as part of my own learning processes. Whether bioinformatics is completely new to you, or you have experience and are just looking to see a different perspective, I have tried to make my resources accessible to all and easy to follow for everybody.

I also have a repository for my wet lab protocols here, before and after publishing on my protocol.io page

My expertise

• Molecular biology
• Bioinformatics
• Writing code
• Big data analysis
• Scientific writing
• Science communication

My publications

Parascedosporium putredinis NO1 tailors its secretome for different lignocellulosic substrates

A bioinformatic workflow for in silico secretome prediction with the lignocellulose degrading ascomycete fungus Parascedosporium putredinis NO1

Whole genome structural predictions reveal hidden diversity in putative oxidative enzymes of the lignocellulose-degrading ascomycete Parascedosporium putredinis NO1

Mining the secretome of the lignocellulose degrading fungus Parascedosporium putredinis NO1

My resources

• Virtual machines for bioinformatics
• Metabarcoding quality control with FastQC
• PIPITS for fungal metabarcoding
• Creating a coassembly from shotgun metagenomic reads
• Mapping shotgun metagenomic reads to contigs
• Taxonomic assignment of shotgun metagenomic contigs
• Binning shotgun metagenomic contigs
• MAG taxonomic classification
• Predicting signal peptides with SignalP 6.0
• Predicting transmembrane proteins with DeepTMHMM 1.0
• Predicting eukaryotic protein localisation with DeepLoc 2.1
• Predicting prokaryotic protein localisation with DeepLocPro 1.0
• Predicting transmembrane proteins with Phobius 1.01
• Classifying metagenomic sequences with EukRep 0.6.7
• Prokaryotic ORF prediction with Prodigal 2.6.3
• Eukaryotic gene prediction with Augustus 3.5.0

Contact Me

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