Frank Murphy
Director NECAT at Cornell University
Lemont, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolFrank Murphy is an experienced crystallographer and technical leader with 14 years driving NE-CAT beamline operations and software at Cornell University, now serving as Director. He builds and shepherds automated data analysis and remote beamline access tools that help X-ray crystallographers collect, process, and solve challenging structures. His background includes hands-on structural work on the 30S and 70S ribosomes during a postdoc at the MRC LMB, giving him deep domain expertise that informs pragmatic software-for-science decisions. Frank combines leadership of multidisciplinary teams with day-to-day involvement in tool development and user support, ensuring solutions are both robust and usable. Based in Lemont, Illinois, he pairs a PhD in Biochemistry from UIUC with decades of beamline experience to bridge academic research and production-grade scientific computing. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex crystallographic workflows into reliable automated systems that increase productivity for diverse users.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at University of LouisvilleSaint Xavier High School Louisville KentuckyPh. D., Biochemistry, Ph. D., Biochemistry at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (33)
docking10
crystallography10
rapid10
structural-biology9
toolbox9
redis-sentinel9
python9
ray9
redis-cluster8
redis-client8
redisearch8
nodejs8
molecular-simulation8
redis8
expressjs8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RAPD/RAPD
Nov 2011 - Dec 2022
Rapid Automated Processing of X-ray Data
Contributions:2789 commits, 51 PRs, 2430 pushes in 11 years 2 months
rapidraypythonx-ray
RAPD/rapd2
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 day
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