Ash O'farrell
Bioinformatics Analyst
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsh O'Farrell is a bioinformatics analyst based in California with nine years of experience applying genomics and engineering to real-world problems. At UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute they built scalable WDL pipelines, converted CWL workflows, and produced a global phylogeny of over 127,000 Mycobacterium tuberculosis samples with standardized metadata visualized on Taxonium. Trained in bioengineering with a bioinformatics minor, Ash combines hands-on sequencing and assembly experience (including a Dean’s- and Chancellor’s-awarded Varroa destructor de novo assembly) with strong documentation, tutorial, and user-facing tooling skills. They enjoy mentoring and translating complex genomic methods for broader audiences, and have a track record of making reproducible, production-ready pipelines that bridge research and public-health surveillance.
9 years of coding experience
University of California Santa CruzBachelor of Science - BS, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz - Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Github Skills (111)
dockstore10
genomics10
nextflow10
genome10
sequencing10
wdl10
gwas10
tcp10
bioinformatics10
file-transfer10
syntax-highlighting10
reproducible-science9
dataframes9
pipeline9
golang9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
dockstore/checker-WDL-templates
Aug 2021 - Mar 2024
Templates for checker WDLs.
Contributions:11 releases, 28 PRs, 99 pushes in 2 years 7 months
checker
aofarrel/diffdiff
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
Highlight the differences between genomic diff files by "aligning" them by position
Contributions:7 releases, 6 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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