Benjamin Garcia
Research Specialist at Mass General Brigham
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Garcia is a computational biology researcher with 11 years of experience developing scalable, multi-omic methodology and pipelines across human, plant, mouse, and microbial systems. He has bridged wet-lab and computational teams at institutions like Mass General Brigham, Broad Institute, Oak Ridge, and MIT to integrate imaging, sequencing, and clinical data for disease and microbiome discovery. His work spans high-throughput microscopy, mass spec imaging, metagenomics, and active-learning experiments, and he has built parallel k-mer and viral classification pipelines that processed billions of reads and hundreds of thousands of taxa. Benjamin is comfortable translating complex biological questions into production-ready analytical tools and cross-linking laboratory and web-based resources to accelerate assay development and drug-efficacy studies. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs a PhD in Computational Bioscience with practical engineering chops and a track record of uncovering nonobvious viral and longitudinal drug–drug interaction signals in large cohorts.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBS Environmental Engineering, BS Environmental Engineering at Oregon State UniversityPhD Computational Bioscience, PhD Computational Bioscience at University of Colorado AnschutzMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Github Skills (17)
dna-sequences10
bioinformatics9
clustering9
annoy7
r-package7
git-mirror7
nearest-neighbors6
r5
rcpp4
cran4
factor-analysis2
python2
scanpy2
multimodal1
muon1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benjamin-james/benjamin-james.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jul 2026
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 1 month
BioinformaticsToolsmith/MeShClust
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
MeShClust: an intelligent tool for clustering DNA sequences
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
clusteringdna-sequencesbioinformaticssequence-clustering
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