Colin Anthony
Data Scientist
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolColin Anthony is a data scientist with 11 years of research-led experience bridging molecular biology and computational analysis, currently applying those skills at the City of Cape Town. He holds a PhD in Medical Biochemistry and a track record of designing and managing multidisciplinary research projects, supervising students, and translating deep sequencing and wet-lab results into robust bioinformatics pipelines. Proficient in Python and Unix, he builds data processing, visualization and QC tools for next-generation sequencing and viral evolution studies, with a research background in HIV immune escape and protein engineering. Known for combining rigorous experimental insight with practical software development, he focuses on projects that deliver measurable societal benefit. Based in the Western Cape, he brings both hands-on lab experience and production-ready computational workflows to complex biological problems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Medical Biochemistry, PhD, Medical Biochemistry at University of Cape Town
English, Afrikaans, German
Stackoverflow
1,169reputation
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22answers
4questions
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Github Skills (64)
ncbi10
keyboard10
mouse10
network10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
treeview10
pandas9
tree-structure9
python9
cvs9
sequence-alignment9
ggplot9
phylogenetics9
protein-structure9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ColinAnthony/nanopore_pipeline_wrapper
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:173 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 11 months
ColinAnthony/NGS_processing_pipeline
Aug 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 292 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 11 months
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