Justin Jeyakani
Senior Bioinformatics Specialist
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Jeyakani is a Senior Bioinformatics Specialist based in Singapore with over 25 years in computational biology and a decade of hands-on genomics experience driving production-grade NGS analytics. At A*STAR Genome Institute he architects and operates scalable genome analysis workflows across HPC, national supercomputing resources and AWS to support national precision-medicine programmes and external collaborators. He combines deep domain knowledge in genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics and protein structure/drug discovery with practical skills in Linux, Python, R and workflow engineering. Equally comfortable with wet-lab techniques—from protein expression to tissue culture—he bridges experimental and computational teams to accelerate translational research. Notably, he’s experienced across the full spectrum of sequencing platforms (Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, 10x) and has helped formalize genomics standards and production pipelines used institute-wide.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Biotechnology, M.Sc Biotechnology at Bharathidasan University
Github Skills (25)
reproducible-research10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
bioinformatics10
dsl9
dataflow9
slurm9
nextflow9
pipeline-framework9
groovy9
docker9
pipeline9
sequencing9
aws9
hpc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
c-BIG/NPM-sample-qc
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
reference implementation of GA4GH WGS Quality Control Standards
Contributions:44 reviews, 77 commits, 53 PRs in 5 months
npm
ga4gh/quality-control-wgs
Mar 2023 - Jun 2026
GA4GH Quality Control of Whole Genome Sequencing's metrics definition, benchmark resources and reference implementations
Contributions:4 reviews, 20 PRs, 153 pushes in 3 years 3 months
sequencing
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