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.
11 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 (36)
exchange10
pipeline10
extensible10
bioinformatics10
portal10
genomics10
sequence10
biology9
specification9
python8
genome-analysis8
gridengine7
sequencing7
wdl6
monarchinitiative6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BRCAChallenge/CERFAC
Apr 2024 - Mar 2026
Cloud-based, Evidence-based Functional Assay Calibration
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
cloud-computing
BD2KGenomics/brca-website-deprecated
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
This repo is deprecated! Please use https://github.com/BD2KGenomics/brca-exchange
Contributions:1 release, 38 commits, 6 PRs in 10 months
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