Alistair Ward
Cofounder CEO at University of Utah
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Ward is a computational biology leader and cofounder CEO with 15 years’ experience translating genomics research into production software used in clinical settings. Trained as a theoretical physicist (PhD), he pivoted to genomic variant detection and bioinformatic pipelines on projects including the 1000 Genomes Project, then built data-visualization tools at the University of Utah that are now widely adopted for clinical genomics. At Frameshift he architects collaborative platforms that enable clinicians, medical geneticists, and bioinformaticians to analyze newborn and rare-disease sequencing data in the NICU and beyond. He has a strong grant record—authoring multiple successful NIH and small-business awards—and pairs deep analytic rigor with product-focused commercialization experience. Notably, his work combines physics-style modelling discipline with a practical focus on intuitive visualization to make complex omics accessible to non-specialists.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Natural Sciences Physics, Natural Sciences Physics at University of CambridgePhD Physics, PhD Physics at Boston College
Github Skills (31)
webservice10
bcftools10
launcher10
next-generation-sequencing9
mer9
command-line-tool9
genomics8
bayesian8
htslib8
bam8
genes8
variants8
polymorphism7
genetics7
bioinformatics7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
raonyguimaraes/vcfPytools
Dec 2010 - Feb 2011
Contributions:35 commits in 2 months
manipulationfile-manipulationvcf
gkno/gkno.github.com
Sep 2012 - Nov 2017
Contributions:81 commits, 101 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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