Michael Roach
Senior Research Fellow In Bioinformatics
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Roach is a Senior Research Fellow in Bioinformatics with eight years of applied experience building high-performance genomics and metagenomics software for HPC environments. He has led notable projects including assembling the Chardonnay genome, developing the widely adopted Purge Haplotigs pipeline for diploid assembly cleanup, and creating a rapid-development framework for bioinformatics tools that improved usability and maintenance. His work spans drug discovery, yeast genomics, and cutting-edge Single Cell and Spatial-Omics, and has been recognized with the Torsten Seemann Outstanding Bioinformatics Software Developer Award (2022). Combining a strong experimental background from a PhD in drug discovery with hands-on structural modelling and software engineering, he translates complex biological problems into robust, production-ready pipelines. Based in Adelaide, he balances research with interests in brewing (BCJP-certified judge), cycling, and music, reflecting a practical curiosity that fuels both his science and tooling work.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Biotechnology (Hons), Bachelor of Biotechnology (Hons) at Flinders University
Github Skills (41)
snakemake10
package-management10
conda10
bioinformatics10
illumina10
bioconda10
metagenomics9
genomics9
python8
machine-learning8
journal7
statistics7
cookiecutter7
open-access7
prediction6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
beardymcjohnface/Trimnami
Jun 2023 - May 2024
Trim lots of metagenomics samples all at once
Contributions:13 releases, 30 PRs, 104 pushes in 10 months
metagenomics
beardymcjohnface/Koverage
Apr 2023 - May 2024
Quickly get coverage statistics given reads and an assembly
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 68 PRs in 1 year
statistics
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