Melissa Cline
Program Manager, BRCA Exchange at University of California, Santa Cruz
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Cline is a program manager and genomics scientist with 10+ years of experience leading multidisciplinary teams to make clinical genetic data safer and more useful, currently directing the BRCA Exchange at UC Santa Cruz. She combines deep technical expertise in bioinformatics and software-led production workflows with a research background in alternative splicing and diagnostic assay development, bridging bench science and scalable data platforms. Her work aims to eliminate Variants of Unknown Significance by pioneering privacy-preserving data sharing methods for BRCA and other genes. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has a PhD in computer science/bioinformatics and a track record of securing funding and shipping tools used by clinical and research communities. An understated strength is her ability to translate complex genomic assays into robust computational pipelines and grant-winning proposals.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (46)
exchange10
pipeline10
bioinformatics10
portal10
genomics10
biology9
specification9
genome-analysis9
sequence9
extensible9
python8
sequencing8
ncbi8
slurm7
gridengine7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BD2KGenomics/brca-website-deprecated
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 release, 38 commits, 6 PRs in 10 months
melissacline/config
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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