Bill Flynn
Associate Director, Single Cell Biology
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBill Flynn is an Associate Director of Single Cell Biology with 16 years of experience translating a background in statistical physics and biophysics into leadership of multiomics core services. He leads interdisciplinary teams at The Jackson Laboratory, combining hands-on computational engineering, pipeline development, and bioinformatics to scale single-cell and spatial 'omics workflows from hundreds to millions of cells. Bill has been principal computational scientist on NIH- and NCI-funded projects, built production data management and delivery platforms, and authored pipelines that power reproducible analysis and archival for large imaging and sequencing datasets. He pairs deep machine-learning and statistical modeling expertise from his PhD work with practical grant and project leadership, and is known for boosting "lateral productivity"—optimizing cross-team processes to accelerate scientific throughput.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Dual B.S.) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (Dual B.S.) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Mathematics at American UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biophysics at Rutgers University
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python10
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Github contributions (5)
TheJacksonLaboratory/nf-tenx
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
All 10x Genomics processing pipelines rolled into one containerized pipelines
Contributions:30 releases, 3 reviews, 100 commits in 1 year 3 months
10xpipelinecontainerizedgenomicsbioinformatics
TheJacksonLaboratory/scanpy_recipes
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
Generalized and aggregated analysis functions for working with Anndata and Scanpy
Contributions:139 commits, 37 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 8 months
orangepythondata-analysisscanpyanalysis
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