Feargal Ryan
Senior Research Fellow at ABACBS - Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolFeargal Ryan is a Senior Research Fellow and head of the new computational multi-omics group at Flinders University, bringing 11 years of experience in bioinformatics and an h-index >20 with over 4,000 citations across 40+ papers in top journals. He designs and implements analysis methods and tools for complex multi-omics datasets—spanning bulk, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, microbiome and bacterial genomics, epigenetics, immune repertoire sequencing, flow cytometry and metabolomics. Previously an EMBL Australia postdoctoral fellow and bioinformatician at SAHMRI, he combines deep methodological expertise with an active role in the Australian bioinformatics community as Vice President of ABACBS. Beyond publications, he convenes scientific meetings and reviews for major journals and funding bodies, reflecting a commitment to translating computational advances into broader research impact. An ability to bridge long-read bacterial genomics with immune and spatial transcriptomic contexts gives him a distinctive edge in integrative, translational studies.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at University College Cork
English
Github Skills (26)
classification8
ncbi8
taxonomy7
next-generation-sequencing7
bioinformatics7
bioconductor7
microbiome7
metagenomics7
sequencing6
genomics5
dna-sequences5
greedy5
mer4
biodiversity4
bayesian3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
feargalr/Demovir
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Taxonomic classification of viruses at Order and Family level
Contributions:47 commits, 49 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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feargalr/TaxSEA
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 129 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years
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