Alistair Ward
Cofounder CEO at Frameshift
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 (38)
samtools10
bcftools10
launcher10
bam9
next-generation-sequencing9
genetic9
sequencing9
genomics9
cli8
htslib8
mer8
bioinformatics8
server8
genes8
variants8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gkno/gkno_launcher
Jul 2012 - Jan 2017
Contributions:728 commits, 1 PR, 250 pushes in 4 years 7 months
or-toolspipelineslauncher
raonyguimaraes/vcfPytools
Dec 2010 - Feb 2011
Contributions:35 commits in 2 months
manipulationfile-manipulationvcf
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