Cheng Tham
Senior Bioinformatician
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Top SchoolCheng Tham is a Senior Bioinformatician with nine years’ experience at the intersection of computational and molecular cancer biology, currently focused on long-read genomics at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. He holds a PhD in Cancer Biology from the National University of Singapore and has moved from academic research fellowships into applied bioinformatics roles, bridging method development and real-world sequencing applications. Cheng develops bioinformatics software and pipelines that translate third-generation sequencing advances into actionable cancer insights, with hands-on expertise in both research and product-oriented environments. Actively seeking postdoctoral or industry opportunities worldwide, he combines deep domain knowledge with practical engineering at the frontiers of cancer genomics.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cancer biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cancer biology at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (50)
genome10
package-management10
conda10
caller10
bioinformatics10
rna-seq10
depth10
bioconda10
neat10
simulator9
sequencing9
sequence9
binder9
genomics9
simulation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cytham/nanovar
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Structural variant caller for low-depth long-read sequencing data
Contributions:25 releases, 5 reviews, 3 commits in 1 day
callerpipelinesequencing-datadepthgenomics
cytham/variantbreak
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 29 commits, 21 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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