I’m a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow working at the EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK. After a PhD in Cell Biology I switched fields and joined the text mining group at the EBI where I develop a workflow for the ranking of candidate genes derived from large biological screening experiments. Perhaps most people know me as “Mek” from the duo “Mekentosj”. Together with my friend Tom “Tosj” Groothuis I developed a number of scientific Cocoa applications, two of which won Apple Design Awards for best Best Student and Best scientific Mac OS X application, respectively. In my spare time I continue to work on creating new and innovative Mac OS X applications, of which our recently released new program Papers is a prime example.