Carson Andorf
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarson Andorf is an Affiliate Assistant Professor and computational biologist with eight years of professional experience bridging bioinformatics, machine learning, and software engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Bioinformatics from Iowa State University and leads data-driven efforts at USDA-ARS and MaizeGDB to translate sequence representations into predictive models for biological problems. Comfortable across languages from C/C++ and Java to Python and Perl, he pairs deep algorithmic research—centered on flexible protein sequence representations—with practical skills in databases, Unix systems, and domain tools like BLAST, HMMER, and Pfam. His background spans academia, government research, industry internships, and enterprise IT, giving him a rare mix of theoretical rigor and production-facing engineering. Based in Ames, Iowa, he focuses on creating reusable computational frameworks that accelerate genomics research and crop genetics discovery.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science and Bioinformatics, Ph.D., Computer Science and Bioinformatics at Iowa State UniversityB.A., Computer Science and Mathematics, B.A., Computer Science and Mathematics at Wartburg College
Github Skills (7)
genes6
variants6
genomes5
sequence5
annotations4
bioinformatics3
database2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
Maize-Genetics-and-Genomics-Database/pedigreenet
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes in 6 months
Maize-Genetics-and-Genomics-Database/FASSO
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
FASSO: Functional Annotations using Sequence and Structure Orthology
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 months
sequenceannotationsorthologyobofoundryfunctional-annotations
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