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Centre for Translational Bioinformatics

Dr Pilar Cacheiro

Pilar

Lecturer in Computational Biology

Centre: Centre for Translational Bioinformatics

Email: p.cacheiro@qmul.ac.uk

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Pilar is a Lecturer in Computational Biology with extensive expertise in the analysis and interpretation of phenotypic data from rare disease patients and model organisms to inform on human disease. Pilar is involved in several projects aimed at deciphering the full spectrum of gene intolerance to variation and developing new machine learning and network approaches to prioritise candidate variants and genes in large scale sequencing studies, with a particular emphasis on neurodevelopmental disorders. Her interests include gene essentiality, phenotype ontologies, statistics and R

Pilar is involved in different activities to improve other researcher's statistical an programming skills, including teaching the Introduction to Statistics and R course within the Researcher Development Program and coordinating a Code Review Clinic to enable data sharing and reproducible research in collaboration with members of the ITSR team. She supervises students from the MSc in Bioinformatics and MSc in Genomic Medicine programs.

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