Lloyd Low
Bioinformatics Data Scientist
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolLloyd Low is a Bioinformatics Data Scientist at the University of Adelaide with a PhD in Genetics from the University of Melbourne and over a decade of experience bridging genomics research, teaching, and bioinformatics service delivery. He has led academic teams and product-oriented units—previously heading Products and Services at Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics—building consultancy, HPC, and training capacity for researchers and industry partners. Lloyd’s research spans NGS-driven genome sequencing, gene annotation, comparative genomics, metagenomics and molecular evolution, with authorship in top-tier journals including Nature and a pending patent for probiotic genomics. He combines hands-on computational skills and pedagogy, having developed e-learning content, taught bioinformatics and biostatistics, and facilitated R and NGS workshops. Equally comfortable in the lab and on the cluster, he supervises graduate research and edits practical NGS handbooks, reflecting a pragmatic focus on translating genomic insights into usable tools and training.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Biotechnology, Bsc, Biotechnology at Monash University MalaysiaGraduate Diploma in Biostatistics, Statistics, GPA (6.889/7), Graduate Diploma in Biostatistics, Statistics, GPA (6.889/7) at The University of AdelaideThe University of Melbourne
Chinese, Malay, English
Github Skills (18)
phylogeny4
biodiversity3
sequencing3
computational-biology3
ecology3
fill3
bioinformatics3
mothur2
microbiology2
open-science2
biology2
assembly2
bioconda2
sequence2
webassembly2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lloydlow/BrahmanAngusAssemblyScripts
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 7 months
lloydlow/hello-world
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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