Colin Kern
Bioinformatics Programmer V
Elk Grove, California, United States
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Top SchoolColin Kern is a computational biologist and Bioinformatics Programmer V with a decade of experience specializing in NGS analysis workflows for ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and Hi-C. He has served as a primary bioinformatics scientist for the FAANG consortium, developing reproducible pipelines and integrative epigenomic analyses across multiple domesticated animal species. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Delaware, he combines deep algorithmic training with hands-on research as a USDA-NIFA postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis and as a current bioinformatics programmer at UC San Diego. Colin is skilled at turning complex experimental designs into scalable, production-ready analysis pipelines and has a track record of cross-institutional collaboration. Based in Elk Grove, CA, he brings both academic rigor and practical engineering discipline to breed improvement and functional genomics projects.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of DelawareBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Earlham College
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Github Skills (26)
snakemake10
seq10
genomes10
rna-seq10
chip-seq9
segmentation9
bioinformatics9
workflow-management9
genomics9
sequencing8
spatial-transcriptomics7
pipeline7
python7
python-bindings5
bayesian5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
epigen-UCSD/MERlin
Apr 2020 - Nov 2024
MERlin is an extensible analysis pipeline applied to decoding MERFISH data
Contributions:2 PRs, 120 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
analysis-pipelinedecodingpipelinemerfishgenomics
kernco/functional-annotation
Aug 2016 - Feb 2022
Pipeline for functional annotation of genomes by integrating data from RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, DNase-seq, etc.
Contributions:1 release, 44 commits, 9 pushes in 5 years 7 months
genomeschip-seqdnase-seqpipelinefunctional-annotation
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