Conrad Bessant
Conrad is Head of Bioinformatics at Cranfield University in the UK. He’s been programming since the days when programs came on cassette tape, and has spent the last 15 years applying the latest computer technologies to extract new scientific knowledge from experimental data. As well as being an active researcher, Conrad also designed Cranfield’s popular MSc in Applied Bioinformatics and continues to be involved in that course, as well as teaching in Europe and Japan.
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Darren Oakley
Darren is currently a Software Developer at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.  He’s been programming for the best part of a decade, and has been a self-confessed geek and Apple fanboy for as long as he can remember!  His main interests are playing with web technologies and code in general, and he has a particular passion for interface design relating to conveying scientific data on the web.  Outside of this Darren can usually be found lurking on Xbox Live, twitter or playing with his blog.
Ian Shadforth
Ian currently lives in San Francisco, having recently moved from LifeScan Scotland, where he led the development of new concepts in diabetes management. Previously Ian worked alongside Darren and Conrad at Cranfield University, where he developed software for proteomic bioinformatics, including the Genome Annotating Proteomic Pipeline (GAPP) and the popular i-Tracker tool for quantitative proteomics.