Credit: Reinhard Schneider
I’m passionate about anything to do with personal genomes, including scientific, clinical and ethical questions. My personal goal is to empower people to understand their own genomes. So far I have been able to pursue this goal moderately with myself and my family. However, I am in a constant search for new opportunities and ventures to push the boundaries of what it’s possible in personal genomics. If anything that I write inspires you any ideas please do not hesitate sending me an email (see contact section on the right) or contact me via Twitter (@manuelcorpas). I tend to have a certain predilection for those ideas that initially are thought of as ‘crazy’ by many and ‘brilliant’ by a few.
For living, I develop software for analysis, integration and data mining of patients affected with genomic disorders. I am fully engaged in the development of a clinical genetics database which collects anonymous genomic patient data and phenotypes to facilitate diagnoses of rare genetic disorders.
I’ve been doing bioinformatics since 2000, starting with a Master’s degree and then on to my PhD, both at the University of Manchester. I have been a visiting scholar or worked at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics. I had the priviledge to be the Inaugural Chair of the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council.
Educational Background
- 2002-2007 PhD Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
- 2000-2001 MSc Computational Molecular Biology, University of Manchester, UK
- 1999-2000 Erasmus program, University of Southampton, UK
- 1995-1999 Licenciatura en Ciencias Biologicas, Especialidad Biosanitaria, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Honors/Awards
- Manuel Corpas’ Blog voted among the top 15 Bioinformatics Blogs in 2010 by Novoseek
- International Society for Computational Biology Board of Directors (2005, 2007, 2008)
- International Society for Computational Biology Student Council Founder (2004).
- World Universities Network fellowship, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Protein Data Bank (2003)
- PhD studentship, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK (2002).
- Collaborative European project, grant QLG2-CT-2002-1298. Towards a unified theory of protein structural fragments and their application for protein engineering and misfolding related diseases (2002).
- Socrates-Erasmus. Exchange year at the University of Southampton, UK (1999).
