Chao-jen Wong
Bioinformatician
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChao-jen Wong is an experienced bioinformatician based in Seattle with over 15 years in genomic data analysis and nine years in focused professional roles across leading research institutes. He has driven discovery of disease mechanisms in FSHD, defined robust molecular signature panels for therapeutic assessment, and revealed immune involvement in muscle pathology—work that shifted prevailing thinking in the field. A seasoned pipeline builder, he has implemented preprocessing workflows for RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, CUT&RUN and Ribo-seq, and frequently advises teams on statistical methods and reproducible analysis. As a former Bioconductor core developer he helped shape core genomic software and trained the community, and he scaled a peer-to-peer data-science network from a few dozen to 250+ members. His background spans mathematics, algorithm development, and applied analytics—from AFM image reconstruction to deep-space telecommunication modeling—bringing quantitative rigor and creative problem solving to biological questions. Colleagues rely on him for blending methodological innovation with practical pipelines that translate complex data into actionable biological insights.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Ph.D. Mathematics, M.S. Ph.D. Mathematics at Claremont Graduate UniversityBA. MA Applied Mathematics, BA. MA Applied Mathematics at California State University, Fullerton
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Github Skills (14)
bioinformatics10
nextflow10
nf-core9
tiddlywiki9
reproducible-science9
open-science9
documentation8
data-science8
science8
r6
dimensionality-reduction4
clustering4
sequence1
upstream1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FredHutch/FHBig
Jan 2018 - May 2020
FHBig project page: https://fredhutch.github.io/FHBig/
Contributions:207 commits, 6 PRs, 195 pushes in 2 years 4 months
project-page
chaochaowong/domainCalling
Feb 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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