Jeremy Mcrae
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Mcrae is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with 12 years’ experience translating genome-scale data into clinically actionable insights, currently improving genetic diagnostics at Illumina from San Francisco. He combines deep statistical genetics expertise—developed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute where he led exome analyses of tens of thousands of individuals and authored papers in Nature/Nature Genetics—with hands-on wet-lab and phenotyping experience from his postdoc linking genotype to human sensory behaviour. Jeremy designs and implements statistical algorithms for GWAS and NGS interpretation, with a track record of prioritising pathogenic variants for clinical use. He brings a rare blend of rigorous method development, clinical diagnostic focus, and consumer-genetics intuition that helps move discoveries into automated, scalable pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biochemistry at University of Otago
English
Github Skills (43)
pii10
feature-extraction10
genetic10
similarity10
lda10
splice10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
filtering10
genes9
data-mining9
cython9
python8
particle7
particle-physics7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeremymcrae/mupit
Jun 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 releases, 238 commits, 114 pushes in 4 years 2 months
jeremymcrae/peds
Feb 2018 - Feb 2023
basic pedigree file parsing
Contributions:2 releases, 48 commits, 1 PR in 5 years
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