Jainy Thomas
Principal Scientist at Tessera Therapeutics
United States
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Top SchoolJainy Thomas is a Principal Scientist with eight years of focused experience in bioinformatics, long-read sequencing, and structural variant analysis, currently advancing genome editing and diagnostics at Tessera Therapeutics. She has led development of complex pipelines for PacBio HiFi and Oxford Nanopore data to detect and prioritize SVs, methylation signals, and repeat expansions, and has a track record of translating wet-lab challenges into robust computational solutions. Her academic work includes novel methods to genotype mobile element insertions and assemble non-reference insertions across family and population WGS datasets, and she has independently secured funding to investigate pathogenic CNVs in autoimmune and neurological diseases. Trained to a PhD level in Quantitative Biology, she blends deep algorithmic insight with hands-on collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, and often pairs genomics analyses with multi-omics to probe variant impact beyond sequence alone. An understated strength is her history of devising practical approaches for ambiguous SV breaktypes and improving assay performance through close coordination with experimental labs.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Quantitative Biology, 4.00, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Quantitative Biology, 4.00 at The University of Texas at ArlingtonMaster of Science - MS, Nematology, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Master of Science - MS, Nematology, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at Indian Agricultural Research Institute
English, Malayalam
Github Skills (26)
alu10
bioinformatics8
sequencing7
illumina6
assembler6
genetic6
extraction6
sequence5
genomics5
command-line-tool5
expressions5
mobile4
java4
python4
genome3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jainy/dimorphicERV
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:113 commits, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
jainy/local_assembly_nonreferenceTE
Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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