Ashish Jain
Founder at Merck
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshish Jain is a founder and computational biologist with 11 years of experience building bioinformatics pipelines, open-source tools, and statistical models for NGS and multi-omics studies. He has led genomics and single-cell projects at Boston Children’s Hospital and the NCI, contributing to translational neuroscience and rare cancer target discovery while publishing as first author in high-impact journals. Skilled in R and Python, he created widely used tools like MAFDash and scDown and has scaled reproducible pipelines on HPC for WGS/WES, spatial transcriptomics, and proteomics. Ashish bridges wet-lab and computational teams through mentorship and workshops, and uniquely combines early industry software engineering experience with deep academic training (PhD, Iowa State) to translate complex genomic data into clinical insights.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State UniversityB.E., Biotechnology, B.E., Biotechnology at Delhi College of Engineering
English, Hindi
Github Skills (68)
cancer-genomics10
genomics10
summarize10
science10
maf10
r-package10
visualization10
bioinformatics10
python9
google9
automation8
mutation8
representations7
certificate7
visualize7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ashishjain1988/ashishjain1988.github.io
Jun 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:87 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
ashishjain1988/MAFDash
Dec 2020 - May 2022
MAFDash: R Package to Easily Create an HTML Dashboard to Summarize and Visualize Data from Mutation Annotation Format (MAF) File
Contributions:7 releases, 146 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 6 months
r-packagemutationvisualizemafsummarize
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