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Employment (3)

University of Liverpool: Liverpool, GB

2019-07-01 to present (Institute of Integrative Biology)
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Neil Swainston

University of Manchester: Manchester, Manchester, GB

2006-04-01 to 2019-06-30 | Senior Experimental Officer (Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM))
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Neil Swainston

Waters Corp: Manchester, Manchester, GB

1999-04-01 to 2006-04-01 | Bioinformatics Team Manager
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Neil Swainston

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Manchester: Manchester, Manchester, GB

2012-03-01 | PhD (Computer Science)
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Neil Swainston

Newcastle University: Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB

1997-09-01 to 1998-09-01 | MSc Computing Science (Computing Science)
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Neil Swainston

University of Manchester: Manchester, Manchester, GB

1992-09-01 to 1996-06-01 | BSc Chemistry with Industrial Experience (Chemistry)
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Neil Swainston

Funding (3)

Enriching Metabolic PATHwaY models with evidence from the literature (EMPATHY)

2015-04 to 2018-04 | Grant
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: BB/M006891/1
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Neil Swainston

Hackathon on Resources for Modelling in Biology 2014 (HARMONY 2014)

2014-04-21 to 2014-10-20 | Grant
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: BB/L026325/1
GRANT_NUMBER: BB/L026325/1
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Neil Swainston via DimensionsWizard

Continued development of ChEBI towards better usability for the systems biology and metabolic modelling community

2013-08 to 2016-07 | Grant
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: BB/K019783/1
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Neil Swainston

Works (20)

EnzymeML—a data exchange format for biocatalysis and enzymology

The FEBS Journal
2022-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Jan Range; Colin Halupczok; Jens Lohmann; Neil Swainston; Carsten Kettner; Frank T. Bergmann; Andreas Weidemann; Ulrike Wittig; Santiago Schnell; Jürgen Pleiss
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Rapid prototyping of microbial production strains for the biomanufacture of potential materials monomers

Metabolic Engineering
2020-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Christopher J. Robinson; Pablo Carbonell; Adrian J. Jervis; Cunyu Yan; Katherine A. Hollywood; Mark S. Dunstan; Andrew Currin; Neil Swainston; Reynard Spiess; Sandra Taylor et al.
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DeepGraphMolGen, a multi-objective, computational strategy for generating molecules with desirable properties: a graph convolution and reinforcement learning approach

2020-07-30 | Preprint
Contributors: Yash Khemchandani; Steve O'Hagan; Soumitra Samanta; Neil Swainston; Timothy J Roberts; Danushka Bollegala; Douglas Kell
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VAE-Sim: A Novel Molecular Similarity Measure Based on a Variational Autoencoder

Molecules
2020-07-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Soumitra Samanta; Steve O’Hagan; Neil Swainston; Timothy J. Roberts; Douglas B. Kell
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DeepGraphMol, a multi-objective, computational strategy for generating molecules with desirable properties: a graph convolution and reinforcement learning approach

2020-06-03 | Preprint
Contributors: Yash Khemchandani; Steve O'Hagan; Soumitra Samanta; Neil Swainston; Timothy J Roberts; Danushka Bollegala; Douglas Kell
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GeneORator: An Effective Strategy for Navigating Protein Sequence Space More Efficiently through Boolean OR-Type DNA Libraries

ACS Synthetic Biology
2019-06-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Andrew Currin; Jane Kwok; Joanna C. Sadler; Elizabeth L. Bell; Neil Swainston; Maria Ababi; Philip Day; Nicholas J. Turner; Douglas B. Kell
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Machine Learning of Designed Translational Control Allows Predictive Pathway Optimization in Escherichia coli

ACS Synthetic Biology
2019-01-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Adrian J. Jervis; Pablo Carbonell; Maria Vinaixa; Mark S. Dunstan; Katherine A. Hollywood; Christopher J. Robinson; Nicholas J. W. Rattray; Cunyu Yan; Neil Swainston; Andrew Currin et al.
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Highly multiplexed, fast and accurate nanopore sequencing for verification of synthetic DNA constructs and sequence libraries

Synthetic Biology
2019-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Andrew Currin; Neil Swainston; Mark S Dunstan; Adrian J Jervis; Paul Mulherin; Christopher J Robinson; Sandra Taylor; Pablo Carbonell; Katherine A Hollywood; Cunyu Yan et al.
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Rationalizing Context-Dependent Performance of Dynamic RNA Regulatory Devices

ACS Synthetic Biology
2018-07-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Ross Kent; Samantha Halliwell; Kate Young; Neil Swainston; Neil Dixon
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PartsGenie: an integrated tool for optimizing and sharing synthetic biology parts

Bioinformatics
2018-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Neil Swainston; Mark Dunstan; Adrian J Jervis; Christopher J Robinson; Pablo Carbonell; Alan R Williams; Jean-Loup Faulon; Nigel S Scrutton; Douglas B Kell; Janet Kelso
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Selenzyme: enzyme selection tool for pathway design

Bioinformatics
2018-06-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Pablo Carbonell; Jerry Wong; Neil Swainston; Eriko Takano; Nicholas J Turner; Nigel S Scrutton; Douglas B Kell; Rainer Breitling; Jean-Loup Faulon; Oliver Stegle
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An automated Design-Build-Test-Learn pipeline for enhanced microbial production of fine chemicals

Communications Biology
2018-06-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Pablo Carbonell; Adrian J. Jervis; Christopher J. Robinson; Cunyu Yan; Mark Dunstan; Neil Swainston; Maria Vinaixa; Katherine A. Hollywood; Andrew Currin; Nicholas J. W. Rattray et al.
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Engineering the “Missing Link” in Biosynthetic (−)-Menthol Production: Bacterial Isopulegone Isomerase

ACS Catalysis
2018-03-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Andrew Currin; Mark S. Dunstan; Linus O. Johannissen; Katherine A. Hollywood; Maria Vinaixa; Adrian J. Jervis; Neil Swainston; Nicholas J. W. Rattray; John M. Gardiner; Douglas B. Kell et al.
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PartsGenie: an integrated tool for optimising and sharing synthetic biology parts

2017-09-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Neil Swainston; Mark Dunstan; Adrian J. Jervis; Christopher J. Robinson; Pablo Carbonell; Alan R. Williams; Jean-Loup Faulon; Nigel S. Scrutton; Douglas B. Kell
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Selenzyme: Enzyme selection tool for pathway design

2017-09-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Pablo Carbonell; Jerry Wong; Neil Swainston; Eriko Takano; Nicholas J. Turner; Nigel S. Scrutton; Douglas B. Kell; Rainer Breitling; Jean-Loup Faulon
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A Metabolic Reaction Balancing Web Service for Computational Systems Biology

2017-09-11 | Preprint
Contributors: Paul D. Dobson; Pedro Mendes; Douglas B. Kell; Neil Swainston
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biochem4j: Integrated and extensible biochemical knowledge through graph databases

PLOS ONE
2017-07-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Neil Swainston; Andreas Prlic; Riza Batista-Navarro; Pablo Carbonell; Paul D. Dobson; Mark Dunstan; Adrian J. Jervis; Maria Vinaixa; Alan R. Williams; Sophia Ananiadou et al.
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CodonGenie: optimised ambiguous codon design tools

2017-02-09 | Other
Contributors: Neil Swainston; Andrew Currin; Lucy Green; Rainer Breitling; Philip J Day; Douglas B Kell
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CodonGenie: optimised ambiguous codon design tools

2017-02-09 | Other
Contributors: Neil Swainston; Andrew Currin; Lucy Green; Rainer Breitling; Philip J Day; Douglas B Kell
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libChEBI: an API for accessing the ChEBI database

Journal of Cheminformatics
2016-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Neil Swainston; Janna Hastings; Adriano Dekker; Venkatesh Muthukrishnan; John May; Christoph Steinbeck; Pedro Mendes
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Peer review (3 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACS omega. (1)
Review activity for ACS synthetic biology. (1)
Review activity for BMC bioinformatics (1)