Anthony Aylward
Co-Founder at Rare Flora
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Aylward is a bioinformatics project leader, software engineer, and co-founder with 12 years of experience translating computational genomics into real-world impact. Based in Denver, he moved from fine-mapping genetic variants in diabetes during a PhD at UC San Diego to sequencing and analyzing plant genomes at the Salk Institute, and now co-leads Rare Flora to develop plants for phytomining rare earth elements. He combines deep statistical genomics and numerical modeling skills with hands-on software and startup execution, having also directed sustainability-focused programs at Nucleate. Anthony’s background in mathematics and experience across academia, institutes, and startups gives him a rare blend of quantitative rigor and product-minded biology, including work that connects fundamental variant discovery to applied organismal engineering.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Beijing Normal UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at UC Santa Barbara
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
genetic10
bioinformatics10
conda9
analytical9
flask9
genomics9
bioconda8
python8
pyramid8
webapp8
wsgi8
package-management8
bedtools7
bottle7
micro-framework7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
anthony-aylward/gtracks
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:93 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 years 7 months
anthony-aylward/tssenrich
Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 3 years 2 months
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