Bioinformatician/Computational Biologist, MRC-UofG Centre for Virus Research @CVRbioinfo @UofGlasgow.Developer of @COGUK_ME Mutation Explorer @CovidGenomicsUK
Joined July 2007
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Derek Wright retweeted
31 Dec 2025
Here's a special countdown for 2026. Happy New Year 🎉
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3 Sep 2025
Presenting my poster for our #influenza visualisation project FLU-GDB at #RSS2025Conf. flu-gdb.cvr.gla.ac.uk #dataviz #Bioinformatics
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Derek Wright retweeted
20 Jun 2025
Our viral #Bioinformatics course has come to an end 🎉 @CVRinfo
This year we welcomed 15 amazing participants from Europe, Asia, Africa & Oceania🌍
Huge thanks to everyone who joined — and to our instructors:
@DerekCVR @RichardJOrton @QuanGuCVR @blJOg @vbsreenu @robertson_lab
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Derek Wright retweeted
16 Jun 2025
As the collaborating centre of @WOAH, we’re thrilled to launch our 8th annual course on viral bioinformatics & genomics! Welcome speech by @CVRinfo director @emcat1 & head of Bioinformatics @robertson_lab 🧬📊 #bioinformatics #genomics
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17 Jan 2025
Apply now for our Viral #Bioinformatics and #Genomics 2025 course. I'm the course coordinator this year, so please get in touch if you need further information. @CVRinfo @WOAH
17 Jan 2025
As a @WOAH Collaborating Centre, we’re excited to announce our 8th annual Viral #Bioinformatics & #Genomics training course, starting 16 June 2025! 🧬@CVRinfo.
đź“… Register by 30 April:
👉 bit.ly/VBGCourse2025
📲 Or scan the QR code to join.
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Derek Wright retweeted
⚓️ | @DerekCVR was a crew member on the recent Glasgow to Stranraer leg of the Round Britain Sailing Pilgrimage, alongside sailor Russ Fairman to celebrate the charity’s 100 years of service.
@StellaMarisOrg provides support to seafarers, fishers & their families worldwide.
ALT Screenshot of an online news article. A large image of two men stood beside a docked Stella Maris boat is at the top of the page. Title reads 'Long-distance sailor thanks Glasgow after voyage stop-off'. Below this is 4 columns of text and two images at the bottom of the page which show the two men sailing the boat and a side angle of the boat docked in the water.
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Derek Wright retweeted
25 Aug 2023
Our #VBG course has finished! 🎉@CVRinfo Thanks to 18 participants from Europe/Asia/Africa/Americas🌍, also thanks to all instructors:@robertson_lab @SrikeerthanaK @DerekCVR @RichardJOrton @vbsreenu @blJOg @QuanGuCVR #Bioinformatics
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9 May 2023
Saying goodbye to our talented colleague Orges Koci, who is moving on to @emblebi.
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2 Sep 2022
Tonight Matthew I’m going to be…@Vinny_Davies89
🤩 #gcbc22
And that’s a wrap! Massive thank you for everyone who attended. Ending with smiles all round from our conference organisers. A special shout-out to @DerekCVR for standing in for @Vinny_Davies89 who was there with us in spirit #gcbc22
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25 Jul 2022
BA.2.75, an #Omicron sublineage of BA.2, designated variant V-22JUL-01 by @UKHSA, is now being tracked in COG-UK Mutation Explorer @COGUK_ME. See sars2.cvr.gla.ac.uk/cog-uk/ @CovidGenomicsUK
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16 Dec 2021
Our resident protein structure guru @_wharvey has created some beautiful new spike images, now available in Mutation Explorer, including this one of #Omicron (BA.1). sars2.cvr.gla.ac.uk/cog-uk/ @COGUK_ME @CovidGenomicsUK @CVRbioinfo @CVRinfo
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11 Dec 2021
#Omicron (B.1.1.529) has been split into sublineages BA.1 and BA.2. BA.1 data are currently available in Mutation Explorer @COGUK_ME. BA.2 is being tracked and will appear if found in UK data. Next update 7am tomorrow. sars2.cvr.gla.ac.uk/cog-uk/ @CovidGenomicsUK @CVRinfo @CVRbioinfo
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27 Nov 2021
#Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant genomes in UK SARS-CoV-2 sequence data are now being actively tracked in COG-UK Mutation Explorer @COGUK_ME, with data updated daily. sars2.cvr.gla.ac.uk/cog-uk/ @CovidGenomicsUK @CVRinfo @CVRbioinfo #SARSCoV2 #COVID19
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27 May 2021
I'll be presenting the COG-UK Mutation Explorer at the first University of Glasgow
Computational Biology Conference this afternoon. Register for free here: cbc.dcs.gla.ac.uk @CVRbioinfo
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Derek Wright retweeted
23 Mar 2020
Incredibly proud UofG's Centre for Virus Research @CVRinfo has been named as one of 13 key centres in a pan-UK alliance of scientists, working on #COVID19 whole genome sequencing.đź¦
Read more➡️ow.ly/NYq8102d5oD
#unisupport #WorldChangingGlasgow #TeamUofG
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26 Feb 2020
The Animal Origins of Coronavirus and Flu quantamagazine.org/how-do-an… via @QuantaMagazine #SarsCoV2 #COVID19
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21 Feb 2020
Proud to have contributed to this major cancer study as part of the #PCAWG consortium. #PanCancer
5 Feb 2020
This week on the Nature cover: Cancer catalogued. Whole-genome sequences for 38 types of tumour. Browse the issue here: go.nature.com/371CVn8
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9 Feb 2020
Brilliant day at 1st WordCamp Glasgow #WCGla yesterday. Thanks to speakers, @MrNeilScott organisers, caterers Soul Food Sisters, @Project_Ability. Enjoyed meeting devs, creatives, business owners. Community spirit - this is how conferences should be. Looking forward to 2nd one!
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Derek Wright retweeted
17 Jan 2020
Genomic machine learning by @CVRinfo and @IBAHCM supports the suspected bat origin of the novel Wuhan coronavirus, but cannot rule out intermediate hosts. See science.sciencemag.org/conte… for algorithm details. Thanks to Fudan University, CDC China and @virological_org for the data
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