Adam Phillippy
Professor at The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Phillippy is a computer scientist-turned-genomics pioneer with 21 years of experience building teams and open-source tools that made finishing and routinely assembling human genomes possible. As founding director of the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research and former head of the Genome Informatics Section at NHGRI, he has led large consortia including Telomere-to-Telomere, the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, and the Vertebrate Genomes Project. His work marries deep software engineering and algorithm development with long-read sequencing to make personalized and population-scale genomics practical. Currently a professor at Johns Hopkins, he focuses on the function, evolution, and clinical impact of previously overlooked repetitive regions of the genome. Named by TIME as one of the world’s most influential people for completing the human genome, he combines hands-on tool-building with consortium-scale leadership. Based in Baltimore, he brings rare expertise at the intersection of high-throughput sequencing, open-source bioinformatics, and applied genomics.
22 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of MarylandB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Loyola University Maryland
Github Skills (17)
blast10
genome10
minhash10
genome-assembly10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
sequence10
genomics-visualization10
comparative-genomics10
assembler7
dna-sequences7
aws6
explore3
phylogeny3
genomes3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marbl/MUMmer3
Jul 2004 - Apr 2013
MUMmer3
Contributions:127 commits, 1 comment in 8 years 10 months
GenomeInformatics/genomeinformatics.github.io
Dec 2016 - Aug 2022
Homepage of the Genome Informatics Section
Contributions:138 commits, 135 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 8 months
bioinformaticsgenome
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