Martin Buchkovich
Associate Director, Bioinformatics
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMartin Buchkovich is an Associate Director of Bioinformatics with 11 years of experience building analytical pipelines and leading teams at IQVIA Laboratories after a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from UNC Chapel Hill. He combines deep hands-on expertise in genomic data analysis, variant annotation, and allele-specific binding detection with proven program management—having progressed from bioinformaticist to leadership roles within the same organization. His background supporting experimental geneticists and managing genotype/sequence databases gives him a rare blend of wet-lab understanding and robust computational practice. Based in Durham, NC, he has a track record of mentoring trainees and translating complex cardiometabolic genetics research into production-ready bioinformatics solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bioinformatics, Bachelor's Degree, Bioinformatics at Brigham Young UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (14)
bioinformatics10
conda10
package-management10
bioconda10
hla9
rna-seq8
sequencing8
genomics7
infectious-diseases3
pathogen2
next-generation-sequencing2
virus2
illumina1
assembler1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
buchkovm/bioconda-recipes
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:36 pushes, 12 branches in 20 days
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
ExpressionAnalysis/HLAProfiler
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Using k-mers to call HLA alleles in RNA sequencing data
Contributions:7 releases, 34 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
hlasequencing-dataallelessequencinggenomics
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