Justin Zook
Co-Leader Biomarker And Genomic Sciences Group at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Columbia, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Zook is a bioinformatician and co-leader of the Biomarker and Genomic Sciences Group at NIST with 13 years of experience developing authoritative human genome reference materials and standards that enable clinical translation of DNA sequencing. He co-leads the Genome in a Bottle Consortium and previously co-led the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium Variants Team, contributing to improvements realized from the first complete human genome sequence. His work spans hands-on sequencing bioinformatics, investigation of systematic sequencing errors and biases, and development of benchmarking best practices for variant calling. Trained as a PhD biomedical engineer, Justin blends deep experimental and computational expertise—an uncommon combination that informs robust, reproducible reference materials used across academia, industry, and regulatory settings.
13 years of coding experience
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, PhD, Biomedical Engineering at University of MemphisBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Penn State UniversityResearch, Research at University of BotswanaResearch Exchange Program, Research Exchange Program at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsDaystar University
Github Skills (39)
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genome10
integrate10
benchmarking10
standardized10
structural-variation10
sequencing10
genomics10
datasets9
bioinformatics9
vcf-files8
consensus7
python-bindings6
nist5
data-science5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jzook/genome-data-integration
Oct 2012 - Sep 2021
Methods to integrate data from multiple genome sequencing datasets and form consensus variant calls
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 11 pushes in 9 years 1 month
genomeconsensuscallssequencinggenomics
ga4gh/benchmarking-tools
Oct 2015 - Apr 2020
Repository for the GA4GH Benchmarking Team work developing standardized benchmarking methods for germline small variant calls
Contributions:30 commits, 8 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 6 months
benchmarkingdevelopingcallsga4ghteam-work
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