David Wooten
Associate Directory, Oncology Bioinformatics
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Wooten is an Associate Director in Oncology Bioinformatics with a PhD in Computational Biology and over a decade of research applying mathematical reasoning to biomedical big data. He builds mechanistic, interpretable models—like BooleaBayes and the widely used MuSyC framework—and maintains a popular Python "synergy" library for quantifying drug combination effects. His work spans machine learning, quantitative systems pharmacology, and transcription factor network inference, with applications uncovering drivers of drug resistance in small-cell lung cancer and AML. Based in Birmingham, AL, he bridges academic rigor and industry-scale bioinformatics at Invitae, and has a curious history of creating sensors and topological data tools during earlier research that informs his multiscale systems thinking.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (25)
combinations9
rmarkdown8
rstudio8
hugo-theme8
open-science8
r8
netlify8
jupyter8
page-builder8
hugo7
forestry7
roamresearch7
synergy6
python6
blogdown6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
djwooten/synergy
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:116 commits, 15 PRs, 106 pushes in 1 year 2 months
python-librarysynergypythondrug-synergycombinations
djwooten/djwooten.github.io
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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