User:Louismaddox

This is the user page of Louis Maddox, who's (hopefully) improving this site's articles in the life sciences/bioinformatics.

During my time at the

DNA topology), before specialising in computational/systems biology and bioinformatics as a postgraduate. I subsequently left academia to join London-based scaleup BenevolentAI (formerly Stratified Medicine) as a chemoinformatics/machine learning software intern developing in-house drug discovery software, and have since continued pursuing research and development in the exciting field of AI

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Research interests

My research interests revolve around the broad realm of bioscience — molecular biology, genetics, oncology, evolution, biophysics... I began to develop in

Javascript and Python during my undergraduate degree, became a full-time Linux user mid-2014, and later became more fixated on R, Go, and Julia

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I now read computer science literature alongside that in the biological sciences, and am planning out paths of self-study in graduate-level mathematics (

scientific computing/data science

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SmoothWiki CSS

In the past I have found Wikipedia hard to read, and its design has changed little over the years. I rejigged the style to make it better looking and less wasteful of screen space, the code for which is available online for use with the StyleBot browser extension. An SVG version for Windows is also available (to avoid ugly kerning issues with light web fonts).

Social media/web links

Scientific research Twitter account
Tech (mainly machine learning) Twitter account
naïve locus — syndicated reading list, also available as a Twitter stream
spin.systems — web development project [2016—, under construction]