Lauren Coombe
Assistant Bioinformatics Coordinator
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Coombe is an Assistant Bioinformatics Coordinator with 11 years of experience developing scalable genome assembly and analysis tools at BC Cancer's Genome Sciences Centre. She has designed and implemented widely used utilities—such as ntLink, ntJoin, LongStitch and components of the ABySS ecosystem—that leverage lightweight data structures to make high-quality de novo assemblies accessible to diverse users. Her work spans algorithm design, pipeline engineering, and large-genome projects including assembly and analysis of multiple 20 Gbp spruce genomes. Beyond tool development, Lauren contributes to reproducible bioinformatics by automating builds and releases for the bioconda-recipes ecosystem, adapting packages across OSes and architectures like ARM64. She has co-authored 28 peer-reviewed papers (seven as first author) and plays an active role mentoring students, supporting grants, and running a productive research lab. Known for combining rigorous computational thinking with practical engineering decisions, she bridges cutting-edge sequencing technology with usable software for the genomics community.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (14)
bioinformatics10
bash10
conda10
package-management10
makefile9
gnu-make9
docker6
dockers6
mson5
mesonbuild5
c-language4
cprogramming-language4
python4
perl4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 42 commits, 108 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Lauren primarily contributed to the build and deployment processes for various bioinformatics tools and recipes within the bioconda-recipes repository. Their commits focused on modifying build scripts, updating dependencies, and integrating new tools. The contributions involved adapting build configurations for different operating systems, including Linux, macOS, and architectures like ARM64. They also added wrapper scripts to simplify the execution of build processes.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
bcgsc/arcs
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
🌈Scaffold genome sequence assemblies using linked or long read sequencing data
Contributions:7 releases, 22 reviews, 54 commits in 4 years 11 months
scaffoldsequencegenomesciencesequencing-data
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