Jianhong Ou
Bioinformatician II
Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Area United States
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Top SchoolJianhong Ou is a bioinformatician with 13 years of experience specializing in integrative analysis of high-throughput sequencing data (ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, iCLIP, etc.) and the development of R/Bioconductor tools to probe transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation. He has held research and bioinformatics roles at Duke, UMass, and currently the Morgridge Institute, bringing a mix of academic rigor (PhD in Engineering from Osaka) and long-term lab collaboration experience. Jianhong contributes to nf-core/modules as a backend developer, helping make community Nextflow pipeline tools more robust for genomics analyses. He focuses on motif discovery and linking binding events to alternative splicing and polyadenylation, and is comfortable integrating diverse data modalities to generate biologically actionable insights. Notably, his work bridges method development and pipeline engineering, enabling reproducible large-scale analyses used across research groups.
13 years of coding experience
Master, Microbiology, Master, Microbiology at Wuhan UniversityPh.D in Engineering, advanced science and biotechnology, Ph.D in Engineering, advanced science and biotechnology at Osaka University
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Github Skills (13)
go-modules10
bioinformatics10
jsmodules10
kernel-module10
nextflow10
pipeline10
dsl10
dockers9
python9
docker9
rcpp6
r6
rstudio6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nf-core/modules
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Repository to host tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 62 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jianhong primarily contributed to the development of modules within the nf-core/modules repository, focusing on tools related to bioinformatics pipelines. Their work included implementing and updating various modules for tools like UCSC, Pairtools, GenMap, Cooler, and others. The contributions involved modifying code, updating dependencies, and adding new functionality to support different bioinformatic analyses.
nf-corehostnextflow-dsl2nextflowdsl2
jianhong/genomictools
Jul 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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