Patricia Chan
Research Scientist at UC Santa Cruz
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolPatricia Chan is a research scientist and bioinformatics leader with over 20 years of experience bridging RNA biology, genomics, and software engineering in academia and industry. She has designed and implemented widely used resources such as the Genomic tRNA Database and tRNAscan-SE, and led bioinformatics teams and platform development for NGS analysis, clinical diagnostics, and microbial genomics. Her work spans algorithm development, web and database engineering (MySQL, C/C++, Java, C#), and experimental collaboration on antimicrobial resistance and noncanonical tRNA function. With a PhD in bioinformatics from UCSC and an MBA, she uniquely combines deep computational biology expertise with product and project management skills. Notably, she integrates comparative genomics, variant annotation, and expression data to reveal structural and functional consequences in tRNA genes, a niche but impactful area of RNA research.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Administration in Computer Information Systems, and Production and Operations Management, BS, Business Administration in Computer Information Systems, and Production and Operations Management at California State University-HaywardMBA, MBA at Santa Clara UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (20)
genomics-visualization10
genome9
bioinformatics9
computational-biology9
data-visualisation8
crossword7
browser7
explore7
sequence7
visual-analytics6
visualization4
visualize4
regl4
geneontology3
owl3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UCSC-LoweLab/tDRnamer
Dec 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:11 releases, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
UCSC-LoweLab/tRNAscan-SE
Mar 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:13 releases, 24 commits, 21 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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