Selected Open Source Projects
crest4
Assigns taxonomic names to DNA sequences from environmental sequencing — a modern rewrite of the CREST classifier.
BioinformaticsMicrobiologyPythonpacmill
End-to-end pipeline for long-read PacBio 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, from raw reads to publication-ready reports.
BioinformaticsPipelinePythonseqenv
Links DNA sequences to Environment Ontology (EnvO) terms by text-mining the scientific literature.
BioinformaticsText MiningPythontrack
Straightforward read/write access to genomic tracks across many file formats, backed by SQLite.
GenomicsSQLPythonforest_puller
Retrieves and harmonizes European forest-inventory data from public sources into one comparable dataset.
Open DataEcologyPythonsinclair.bio
This very site — a fast, bilingual static site built with Astro, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript, auto-deployed on every commit.
WebsiteAstroTypeScriptSelected Testimonials
"I can wholeheartedly recommend Lucas for scientific website development and online data handling. For our project on tracking the microbiomes of industrial anaerobic digesters, Lucas provided immensely helpful advice on how to best construct an online repository for our data, and also developed a highly professional and stylistic front page. We have also benefited from his experience in choosing the right title for the site. The service was professional and on schedule, and Lucas was great to work with."
"The metagenomics microbial 16S rRNA pipeline developed by Lucas has been crucial for our gut microbiome projects."
"Lucas helped me in 2021, through his company Sinclair Bio, with a total reimplementation of the bioinformatics software CREST that I originally developed during my PhD. It was a pure pleasure to work with Lucas and in addition to writing well structured and state of the art python code, the help and advice he provided, planning the work and resolving different issues, was always very friendly, insightful, skillfull, clear and in prompt. I can warmly recommend Lucas and Sinclair Bio for software development or data analysis tasks related to bioinformatics or to other ends!"
"Lucas was a passionate and motivated Python teacher who was able to pass on not only his knowledge but also his experience to students. His lessons were clear, informative and well organised, allowing students to progress step by step. Feedback from students was very positive. I hope he will return every year to teach this course again."
"Lucas was able to spearhead our bioinformatics analysis pipeline project and bring it to completion in an efficient and timely manner. Working with him was a pleasure and I strongly recommend him."
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