Katelyn Mcnair
Senior Scientist, Data Science And Algorithms
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatelyn Mcnair is a computational biologist and senior data scientist with 11+ years of experience developing machine learning and algorithmic solutions for large-scale omics and spatial transcriptomics data. She has a proven track record of translating biological insight into widely adopted open-source tools—authoring the only phage-specific gene caller (PHANOTATE), the first phage lifestyle classifier (PHACTS), the sole ribosomal frameshift predictor (PRFect), and Genotate, a novel small-language-model-based gene finder. At UC San Diego she accelerated image-based MERFISH pipelines tenfold and deployed SPRED for cellular boundary prediction, and she now applies that blend of production ML, HPC systems administration, and domain expertise at Quantum-Si. Her work combines deep statistical rigor with practical engineering—building pipelines that mined global metagenomes (revealing crAssphage prevalence) and tooling packaged for easy pip installation—making her contributions both scientifically impactful and highly usable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computational Science, Master of Science - MS Computational Science at San Diego State UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Spanish
Github Skills (125)
blast10
package-management10
python10
genomes10
deep-learning10
prediction10
genomics10
bacteria10
bam10
ncbi10
ml10
neural-network10
bioconda10
data-science10
conda10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
deprekate/kmeans
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
deprekate/PHANOTATE
May 2017 - Nov 2022
PHANOTATE: a tool to annotate phage genomes.
Contributions:2 releases, 165 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 6 months
genomesannotategenomicsbioinformaticsannotation
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