About me

Hello, I'm Vimal — a Linux system administrator and software developer working in the area of Bioinformatics.

You can send me an email, subscribe to my channel on YouTube, or follow me on Mastodon.

Publications

My work is featured in the following research publications for providing software development or IT support. (ORCiD)

  • Draper, L.A., Ryan, F.J., Dalmasso, M. et al. Autochthonous faecal viral transfer (FVT) impacts the murine microbiome after antibiotic perturbation. BMC Biol 18, 173 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00906-0.
  • The Human Gut Virome Is Highly Diverse, Stable, and Individual Specific.
    Cell Host & Microbe 26.4 (Oct. 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2019.09.009.
  • Fitzgerald, C.B., Shkoporov, A.N., Sutton, T.D.S. et al. Comparative analysis of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii genomes shows a high level of genome plasticity and warrants separation into new species-level taxa. BMC Genomics 19, 931 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-5313-6.
  • Enrique González-Tortuero, Thomas David Sean Sutton, Vimalkumar Velayudhan, Andrey Nikolaevich Shkoporov, Lorraine Anne Draper, Stephen Robert Stockdale, Reynolds Paul Ross, Colin Hill. VIGA: a sensitive, precise and automatic de novo VIral Genome Annotator. bioRxiv 277509. https://doi.org/10.1101/277509.
  • Michel, A. M., Mullan, J. P. A., Velayudhan, V., O’Connor, P. B. F., Donohue, C. A., & Baranov, P. V. (2016). RiboGalaxy: A browser based platform for the alignment, analysis and visualization of ribosome profiling data. RNA Biology, 13(3), 316–319. https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2016.1141862.
  • O’Farrell B, Haase JK, Velayudhan V, Murphy RA, Achtman M (2012) Transforming Microbial Genotyping: A Robotic Pipeline for Genotyping Bacterial Strains. PLOS ONE 7(10): e48022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048022.

Talks, posters, and presentations

Includes online and in-person events

  • BioinfoLinux — a ready-to-use virtual machine for teaching and learning Bioin-
    formatics. ISMB/ECCB 2021. (more details)
  • Python with Me (online), May 27, 2020
    Pint of Science, Ireland, Tech me out at home.
  • Review of KDE Plasma desktop, Oct 30, 2018
    Linux Cork 4
  • An open source voice assistant, May 15, 2018
    Pint of Science, Ireland.
  • Setup your own cloud server on DigitalOcean, Oct 26, 2017
    Cork Linux Meetup #3
  • A short review of the GNOME desktop environment, Sep 28, 2017
    Cork Linux Meetup #2
  • This is my Linux story, Aug 2017
    Cork Linux Meetup #1
  • Beginning GUI design using PyQt, Oct 2011
    PyCon Ireland