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Hello!

I’m Jordan, and I’m a final year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. I’m writing up at the moment. I try to stay curious about the world, and I’m always looking for challenges. You can read more about me here.


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Blog

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Life comes at you fast

All of a sudden we’re halfway through 2024. I got it in my head to start writing a blog over Christmas last year, and that feels like it was just yesterday. Now, I have to…
Jun 5, 2024
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A defense of machine-information metaphors in biology

If you pick up any biology textbook, you will likely notice that many of the concepts therein are explained primarily by analogy. Sub-cellular organelles and biomolecular…
Apr 27, 2024
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Note on Peer Review

The last few years has seen an explosion in the use of preprint servers to circulate research results, especially in the life sciences. Long established in physical and…
Mar 6, 2024
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Projects & Publications

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Alternative splicing expands the antiviral IFITM repertoire in Chinese horseshoe bats
Mak et al
Dec 4, 2023

Epistasis & Polygenic Scores

Notebook working out the impact of epistasis on polygenic prediction.

Jordan Taylor
Aug 30, 2023

Hypoxia Induced Transcriptome

Interactive dashboard for Perman et al, 2011

Jordan Taylor
Apr 30, 2023

Income & Life Expectancy

Interactive dashboard for Chetty et al, 2016

Jordan Taylor
Apr 30, 2023
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