Alan Collins
Senior Bioinformatician
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Collins is a Senior Bioinformatician with nine years of academic research experience and eight years in applied bioinformatics roles, currently based in Atlanta and transitioning into industry-facing work. He combines a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology with hands-on bench and computational expertise, having moved from graduate research and a postdoc into bioinformatics positions at IHRC and lecturing graduate programming for bioinformatics at Georgia Tech. Alan’s strengths lie in bridging molecular biology and data-driven analyses, building reproducible pipelines in Bash and Python and translating complex experimental designs into actionable computational workflows. He brings practical teaching experience that sharpens communication of technical methods to diverse audiences and a track record of adapting academic rigor to deliver results in operational settings. An often-overlooked asset is his dual perspective as both bench scientist and developer, enabling rapid iteration between wet-lab insights and bioinformatic solutions.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology and Immunology at Geisel School of Medicine at DartmouthBachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at University of Bath
Github Skills (34)
package-management10
conda10
forge10
bioinformatics10
bioconda9
rna-seq8
ncbi8
pdf-files8
pdf8
pdf-generation8
genetics7
markdown7
genbank7
sequencing7
svg7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Alan-Collins/CRISPR_tree
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:105 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
Alan-Collins/Spine-Nucmer-SNPs
Dec 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
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