GW McElfresh
Computational Biologist
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGW McElfresh is a computational biologist with eight years’ experience applying transcriptomics, systems biology, and robust pipeline engineering to infectious disease and immune cell dynamics. Based at OHSU, he combines fault-tolerant preprocessing, frequentist and Bayesian modeling, causal inference, and copula-based integration to extract reproducible insights from heterogeneous omics datasets. He co-developed the rhesus macaque single-cell immune atlas (RIRA) and open-source tools like cellhashR, bridging method development with collaborative resource building. His work spans discovery of protein biomarkers in tuberculosis, Yellow Fever, and HIV/SIV and emphasizes well-structured, team-oriented computation that accelerates translational research. A physicist-and-mathematician by training, he brings quantitative rigor and an eye for scalable, interpretable analyses to complex biological problems.
8 years of coding experience
Missouri State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at University of Kansas- Center for Computational BiologyBachelor's Degree, Physics and Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics and Mathematics at Drury UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Github Skills (10)
rna-seq10
seq10
r-package10
bioinformatics9
classification8
genomics6
cran6
single-cell-genomics4
normalization2
spatial2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GWMcElfresh/GWMcElfresh.github.io
Nov 2017 - Sep 2024
Personal Pages
Contributions:12 PRs, 46 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 10 months
GWMcElfresh/genieinamodel
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:22 PRs, 134 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 5 months
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