Justin Fear
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist I
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Fear is a Bioinformatics Scientist with 11 years of experience applying next-generation sequencing, machine learning, and statistical methods to genomic problems, currently building tissue- and cell-type-aware gene regulatory network models. His work spans single-cell and long-read sequencing (scRNA-Seq, PacBio Iso-Seq) to study Drosophila gonad development and to create a curated, machine-learned atlas of all public D. melanogaster RNA-Seq data to promote reuse. He bridges bench and computational teams, having held research and engineering roles at NIDDK, NCI, and now Pairwise, and contributes to open-source workflow tooling such as Snakemake by improving core functionality and usability. Trained with a PhD in Genetics and Genomics, he combines deep domain knowledge with practical software engineering to deliver reproducible, community-focused genomic resources.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of MissouriDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics and Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics and Genomics at University of Florida
Github Skills (5)
workflow-management10
conda10
python10
command-line-tool9
documentation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
snakemake/snakemake
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
This is the development home of the workflow management system Snakemake. For general information, see
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Snakemake workflow management system. Their work included bug fixes, particularly addressing a tuple index error related to conda environments. They also made changes to the documentation, clarifying command-line options and examples. Furthermore, the user updated the system to handle relative paths correctly for conda environment files, improving its usability.
snakemakereproducibilityworkflow-management
jfear/tapeAnalyst
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
tapestationanalyzegels
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