Garan Jones
Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University School of Medicine
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGaran Jones is an interdisciplinary research fellow and bioinformatician with 14 years’ experience bridging software engineering and genomic science, currently focused on cancer genomics and ageing at Cardiff University. He combines hands-on long-read and single-cell transcriptomics, nanopore sequencing and structural variant curation with machine-learning-enabled expert crowd-sourced labeling for improved SV calling and tumor isoform analysis. His background spans clinical bioinformatics pipeline development in NHS settings, population-scale genetic epidemiology (GWAS, MR) during a PhD on ageing, and earlier senior software roles building production systems at Sanger and public-health services. Comfortable in languages from Ruby and Clojure to Python, R and Bash, he brings both practical sysadmin and production deployment experience to research projects. Notably, he has translated domain knowledge into tools and community workflows—such as GenomeWiz and crowdsourced curation—that accelerate translational genomics.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma, Human/Medical Genetics, Postgraduate Diploma, Human/Medical Genetics at University of AberdeenMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Swansea UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at University of SouthamptonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medical Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medical Studies at University of Exeter
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Github Skills (15)
http6
iframe6
activerecord6
injection6
ssl6
google-maps6
ruby6
nested-attributes6
ruby-on-rails6
java5
genetics5
bioinformatics4
sequencing4
genomics3
pipeline3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pasted/variant_parser
Dec 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 6 months
pasted/targeted_sequencing_pipeline
Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
exeterpipelinegeneticssequencinggenomics
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