NBRI

Tom Barker

Senior Research Assistant

Technical Genomics

Biography
Publications

Biography

Contact details:

+44 (0) 1603 450 082

tom.barker@earlham.ac.uk

Tom Joined the Earlham Institute in March 2011 and is trained in many library construction methods such as PacBio IsoSeq, RNA, DNA, ChIPseq, and 16S V4 amplicon library prep.

He is most experienced at running the Illumina sequencing instruments but is also trained to run the Ion Proton and to use the Perkin Elmer liquid handling robots.

Tom graduated from the UEA in 2010 with a degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics.

Publications

Tom Barker

Biography

Publications

An improved assembly and annotation of the allohexaploid wheat genome identifies complete families of agronomic genes and provides genomic evidence for chromosomal translocations

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Threshing out the grains of FAIR data with Grassroots

Transforming metagenome assembly from long reads with metaMDBG

Optimising the extraction of High Molecular Weight DNA from fungi

Analysing cell imaging data at scale with AI

LITE2 takes affordable genome sequencing to a new level