
Fergal Martin
Eukaryotic Annotation Team Leader
fergal [at] ebi.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0002-1672-050X
Eukaryotic Annotation
Eukaryotic Annotation Team Leader
Eukaryotic Annotation Team Leader
fergal [at] ebi.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0002-1672-050X
Fergal has been working on the Ensembl project since 2012, first as a senior bioinformatician, and subsequently as Project Leader for the Genebuild team. He is currently the Vertebrate Annotation Coordinator. He has been involved in the annotation of many species, for example generating the GENCODE gene set for mouse, and develops pipelines and software to annotate the growing wealth of sequenced vertebrate genomes. Fergal holds a BSc in computational biology and bioinformatics and a PhD in comparative genomics and evolutionary biology from Maynooth University, Ireland.