• 

  Bioinformatics

  A good measure of complexity in higher organisms is the number of different cell types, from 3 in some Fungi and up to 170 in Humans. The abundance of many protein domains that are involved in extracellular processes correlate with the number of cell types. One such extracellular process is the complex system by which cells communicate between each other via signalling pathways. The aim of this project is to understand how the complexity of calcium signalling pathways has emerged in higher organisms over evolution.

• 

  Evolutionary Computation

  Symbibots.. blah blah blah

• 

  Laser Scanning

  Project to hookup a high throughput laser scanner to a rugged robot chassis.

• 

  Satellite Data Ordering System

  My undergraduate degree involved a year in industry with the Remote Sensing Group, at the Plymouth Marine Biology Labs. As part of my time there I engineered a large scale online data ordering system for satellite data.

• 

  Photography

  I really enjoy photography.

Welcome

Last Update :: 4^th December 2011

Hi, and welcome to my homepage. This site is just a convenient home for all my side projects and code. It's also intended as a bit of a portfolio for the sake of anyone checking me out for work. Everything you see is my own work, including this very sites design and implementation. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about how I've achieved something, like the rotating doodad above (uses a JQuery plugin). Just check out my contact details on the Contact page. Thanks for visiting, and I hope you find something fun or useful on the site.

Feel free to subscribe to my Atom feed, it only ever gets updated when something major is added to the site. Also, to see the more experimental things I am working on try looking at the Work section of the sitemap, as this is automatically populated as I create projects.

UPDATED: Home is the most recently updated page on the site.
UPDATED: Parody is the most recently updated piece of work on the site. This might well be a work in progress and is not meant to be of release quality! You have been warned, don't come crying to me if your browser crashes, your CD tray ejects or the power to the building goes out.

Other Vanity Sites

• Matt Oates @ UoB Computer Science
• Matt Oates @ Bristol Robotics Lab
• Matt Oates @ UoB Centre for Complexity Sciences
• Matt Oates @ Aber Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences

Goals & Aims

Throughout the site I am trying to keep the content as accessible as possible:

• Navigation uses lists, and layout is achieved through use of divs instead of tables, to be screen reader friendly.
• Any use of JavaScript should only enhance default viewing of a page. Or for required webapp functionality.
• The site uses a different style sheet for printing, omitting messy headers and superfluous colour and images.
• HTML source has been kept clean and simple, so that user-defined stylesheets should make a difference.
• All style is designed to scale, no fixed-width and px hacks have been used.
• Where possible I have kept to strict W3C standards, with a few minor exceptions (I hope).