Jennifer Fouquier
Bioinformatics Consultant
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Fouquier is a bioinformatics consultant and independent scientist with 11 years of experience translating complex microbiome and longitudinal study data into actionable insights. She developed EXPLANA, a feature-selection and exploratory analysis tool born from her PhD work in computational bioscience, and uses it to guide hypothesis generation across cross-sectional and intervention studies. Based in San Diego, she combines hands-on software development (Python, Django) and LIMS experience with deep-domain lab knowledge from molecular biology to microbial ecology. Her background spans academia and industry, from building citizen-science web tools at Scripps to LIMS and genome-interpretation projects, giving her a pragmatic perspective on reproducible pipelines and production-ready analyses. Notably, she focuses on the thorny challenges of observational and interventional longitudinal analyses, an area where her workflow and tools have been applied to autism and diet-intervention microbiome studies.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Bioscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Bioscience at University of Colorado AnschutzM.S. Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics, M.S. Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics at San Diego State University
Github Skills (85)
package-management10
shap10
conda10
phylogenetic-trees10
bioinformatics10
biomedical10
gradient-boosting9
bioconda9
deep-learning9
microbiome9
computational-biology9
feature-selection9
shapley9
machine-learning9
twine9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JTFouquier/explana
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Workflow to generate interactive html feature selection report for longitudinal and cross-sectional studies
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 years 8 months
classificationexploratory-data-analysisfeature-selectionhypothesis-generationimportance
JTFouquier/ghost-tree-trees
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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