Jimmy Breen
Chief Data Scientist At Black Ochre Data Labs
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolJimmy Breen is a computational biologist and Chief Data Scientist with 11+ years’ experience applying next-generation sequencing and epigenetics to medical and reproductive biology research. He has led core bioinformatics facilities across Australian research institutes and universities, delivering fee-for-service analyses, developing tools for bioinformaticians, and lecturing in postgraduate programs. His work spans ancient DNA, plant and fungal genomics, genome assembly and large-scale transcriptomics, evidencing a rare breadth from wet-lab sample interpretation to scalable computational pipelines. As a group leader and associate professor he bridges academic research and operational core services, translating complex genomics projects into reproducible analyses. Based in Adelaide, he also serves as secretary of the Epigenetics Consortium of South Australia, reflecting active leadership in the local genomics community.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at Murdoch University
Github Skills (26)
bioinformatics9
single-cell-analysis8
structural-biology7
blast7
galaxy7
rna-seq7
computational-biology7
genomics6
crystallography6
nextflow5
bash5
bam5
computational-science5
snakemake4
visualize4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jimmybgammyknee/jimmybgammyknee.github.io
Apr 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:154 commits, 254 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
jimmybgammyknee/gammytools
Nov 2014 - May 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 45 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 7 months
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