Anil Thanki

 

I’m a Senior Bioinformatician at EMBL-EBI focused on building open, reproducible tools and visualisations for large-scale sequencing data. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Scientific Programmer at the Earlham Institutea>. I hold a PhD in Bioinformatics (University of East Anglia - UEA, UK), an MSc (University of Leicester, UK), and a BSc (Saurashtra University, India). Interests: open science, Galaxy workflows, and interactive data visualisation with D3.js.

Software Gallery

Open-source bioinformatics tools and visualisations I've developed for genomic data analysis and exploration.

TGAC Browser

An open-source genome browser designed for non-model organisms. Provides a flexible platform for visualising genomic features, annotations, and experimental data tracks with support for custom data sources.

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Aequatus

An open-source homology browser for visualising gene synteny and homology relationships across multiple genomes. Provides interactive visualisations of gene structures, protein domains, and comparative genomics data.

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GeneSeqToFamily

An open-source Galaxy workflow based on the Ensembl GeneTrees pipeline. Facilitates the identification of gene families, creating gene trees and visualizations using the Galaxy platform.

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lncRNA Analysis

A Snakemake-based pipeline to annotate novel lncRNA using existing annotation.

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WigExplorer

A BioJS component for interactive visualisation of wiggle (WIG) format genomic data. Enables exploration of continuous-valued data tracks such as ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, and other sequencing experiments.

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Selected Publications

  1. Expression Atlas in 2026: Enabling FAIR and Open Expression Data Through Community Collaboration and Integration Nucleic Acid Research 2025 PMID:41370097

  2. The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2024 update Nucleic Acid Research 2023 PMID:38769056

  3. Expression Atlas update: insights from sequencing data at both bulk and single cell level Nucleic Acid Research 2023 PMID:37992296

  4. Convergent gene loss in aquatic plants predicts new components of plant immunity and drought response Plant Cell, 2020, PMID:32409319

  5. TGAC Browser: An open-source genome browser for non-model organisms bioRxiv, 2019, DOI:10.1101/677658

  6. GeneSeqToFamily: a Galaxy workflow to find gene families based on the Ensembl Compara GeneTrees pipeline GigaScience, 2018, PMID:29425291

  7. Aequatus: An open-source homology browser GigaScience, 2018, PMID:30395211

  8. ViCTree: An automated framework for taxonomic classification from protein sequences Bioinformatics, 2018, PMID:29474519

  9. transPLANT Resources for Triticeae Genomic Data The Plant Genome, 2016, PMID:27898761

  10. BioJS: an open source standard for biological visualisation–its status in 2014 F1000Research, 2014, PMID:25075290

  11. Anatomy of BioJS, an open source community for the life sciences eLife, 2015, PMID:26153621

  12. StatsDB: platform-agnostic storage and understanding of next generation sequencing run metrics F1000Research, 2014, PMID:24627795

  13. wigExplorer, a BioJS component to visualise wig data F1000 Research, 2014, PMID:27781080

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