Gregg Helt
Owner at Genomancer
Healdsburg, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGregg Helt is a founder and scientist with 15 years of experience building bioinformatics tools and leading R&D initiatives from startup to national lab settings. As owner of Genomancer and former staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, he blends deep molecular biology expertise (PhD, UC Berkeley) with hands-on full-stack development—contributing notable features to the widely used JBrowse genome browser, including BAM file loaders and alignment track support. His background spans industry roles at Affymetrix and Zymergen and a CTO stint in the ’90s, giving him a rare mix of entrepreneurial leadership, product-driven engineering, and domain-specific research. Based in Healdsburg, CA, Gregg repeatedly turns complex genomic data needs into practical, user-facing software that accelerates analysis and annotation.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology at University of California, BerkeleyBiochemistry and Philosophy, Biochemistry and Philosophy at Rice University
Github Skills (5)
bioinformatics10
javascript10
bam10
html9
css8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GMOD/jbrowse
Oct 2012 - Aug 2013
Full-featured and stable genome browser built with JavaScript and HTML5.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gregg implemented features for loading and displaying data within the JBrowse genome browser. They added a file loader for BAM files, incorporating UI elements for file selection and loading. Furthermore, the user contributed to core codebase by merging in updates and modifying JavaScript code for feature display and subfeature rendering. The user also registered and modified track types to support the new alignment features.
genomegenome-browserbrowsergenome-annotationprotein-annotation
GreggHelt2/JWildfire
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:202 pushes, 78 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 1 month
javaanimation
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