Dr William Haese-Hill
- Research Software Engineer (MVLS Research Facilities)
email:
William.Haese-Hill@glasgow.ac.uk
University Place, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966Biography
Dr William Haese-Hill is a Research Software Engineer (RSE), working within the MVLS Shared Research Facilities (SRF) since 2024. He completed a PhD in Mathematical Physics in 2015, before spending a number of years in industry; firstly as a mathematical/pharmocometric modeller in an oncology CRO, followed by several general software development roles across various sectors.
William joined the University of Glasgow in 2021 as a Programmer/Data Analyst within Professor Thomas Otto's lab in the School of Infection & Immunity, where he gained experience in developing software for computational biology research.
He has since gone on to work on research projects across the life sciences, as well as delivering teaching/training in MVLS, and presenting at events to advocate for good software development practices in research.
Research interests
Bioinformatics tools
Genome annotation
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Companion is a web resource enabling users to annotate a genome assembly using a high-quality reference as a template |
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Apollo3 is a plugin for the genome browser JBrowse 2 to support collaborative, customizable, and scalable graphical genome annotation |
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peaks2utr is a Python command line tool to annotate 3' untranslated regions (UTR) based on transcriptomic evidence |
Publications
2025
Tang, Mingcan, Haese-Hill, William 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Morton, Fraser ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Goodyear, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-5941, Porter, Duncan, Siebert, Stefan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Otto, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2025)
RNAcare: integrating clinical data with transcriptomic evidence using rheumatoid arthritis as a case study.
BMC Medical Genomics, 18(1),
93.
(doi: 10.1186/s12920-025-02162-z)
(PMID:40399884)
(PMCID:PMC12096495)
Agboraw, E. et al. (2025) paraCell: a novel software tool for the interactive analysis and visualization of standard and dual host-parasite single cell RNA-Seq data. Nucleic Acids Research, 53(4), gkaf091. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf091) (PMID:39988320)
Tang, Mingcan, Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Morton, Fraser ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Goodyear, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-5941, Porter, Duncan, Siebert, Stefan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Otto, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2025)
RNAcare: integrating clinical data with transcriptomic evidence using rheumatoid arthritis as a case study.
bioRxiv,
(doi: 10.1101/2025.01.31.635914)
2024
Agboraw, E. et al. (2024) paraCell: A novel software tool for the interactive analysis and visualization of standard and dual host-parasite single cell RNA-Seq data. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.1101/2024.08.29.610375)
Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Crouch, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9310-4762 and Otto, Thomas D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2024)
Annotation and vizualisation of parasite, fungi and arthropod genomes with Companion.
Nucleic Acids Research, 52(W1),
W39-W44.
(doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae378)
(PMID:38752499)
(PMCID:PMC11223846)
Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Crouch, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9310-4762 and Otto, Thomas D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2024)
Annotation and visualisation of parasite, fungi and arthropod genomes with Companion.
bioRxiv,
(doi: 10.1101/2024.02.19.580948)
2023
Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Crouch, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9310-4762 and Otto, Thomas D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2023)
peaks2utr: a robust Python tool for the annotation of 3’ UTRs.
Bioinformatics, 39(3),
btad112.
(doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad112)
(PMID:36864613)
(PMCID:PMC10008064)
2017
Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Hallnäs, Martin A. and Veselov, Alexander P.
(2017)
On the spectra of real and complex Lamé operators.
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications, 13,
049.
(doi: 10.3842/sigma.2017.049)
2016
Haese-Hill, William A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Hallnäs, Martin A. and Veselov, Alexander P.
(2016)
Complex exceptional orthogonal polynomials and quasi-invariance.
Letters in Mathematical Physics, 106(5),
pp. 583-606.
(doi: 10.1007/s11005-016-0828-8)
Articles
Tang, Mingcan, Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Morton, Fraser ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Goodyear, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-5941, Porter, Duncan, Siebert, Stefan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Otto, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2025)
RNAcare: integrating clinical data with transcriptomic evidence using rheumatoid arthritis as a case study.
BMC Medical Genomics, 18(1),
93.
(doi: 10.1186/s12920-025-02162-z)
(PMID:40399884)
(PMCID:PMC12096495)
Agboraw, E. et al. (2025) paraCell: a novel software tool for the interactive analysis and visualization of standard and dual host-parasite single cell RNA-Seq data. Nucleic Acids Research, 53(4), gkaf091. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf091) (PMID:39988320)
Tang, Mingcan, Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Morton, Fraser ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Goodyear, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-5941, Porter, Duncan, Siebert, Stefan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Otto, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2025)
RNAcare: integrating clinical data with transcriptomic evidence using rheumatoid arthritis as a case study.
bioRxiv,
(doi: 10.1101/2025.01.31.635914)
Agboraw, E. et al. (2024) paraCell: A novel software tool for the interactive analysis and visualization of standard and dual host-parasite single cell RNA-Seq data. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.1101/2024.08.29.610375)
Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Crouch, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9310-4762 and Otto, Thomas D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2024)
Annotation and vizualisation of parasite, fungi and arthropod genomes with Companion.
Nucleic Acids Research, 52(W1),
W39-W44.
(doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae378)
(PMID:38752499)
(PMCID:PMC11223846)
Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Crouch, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9310-4762 and Otto, Thomas D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2024)
Annotation and visualisation of parasite, fungi and arthropod genomes with Companion.
bioRxiv,
(doi: 10.1101/2024.02.19.580948)
Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Crouch, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9310-4762 and Otto, Thomas D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2023)
peaks2utr: a robust Python tool for the annotation of 3’ UTRs.
Bioinformatics, 39(3),
btad112.
(doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad112)
(PMID:36864613)
(PMCID:PMC10008064)
Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Hallnäs, Martin A. and Veselov, Alexander P.
(2017)
On the spectra of real and complex Lamé operators.
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications, 13,
049.
(doi: 10.3842/sigma.2017.049)
Haese-Hill, William A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Hallnäs, Martin A. and Veselov, Alexander P.
(2016)
Complex exceptional orthogonal polynomials and quasi-invariance.
Letters in Mathematical Physics, 106(5),
pp. 583-606.
(doi: 10.1007/s11005-016-0828-8)
Teaching
BIOL5472 - Developing Robust Bioinformatics Software - Course Coordinator
Professional activities & recognition
Professional & learned societies
- 2025: Trustee (Vice-Secretary), Society of Research Software Engineering
Supplementary
- Green DiSC Representative for the MVLS SRF Research Software Engineering Research Group
