Peter Combs
Staff Computational Biologist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Combs is a Staff Computational Biologist with 15 years of experience applying scalable, reproducible computational methods to challenging biological problems, currently based in San Francisco and working at Freenome. He combines hands-on data generation and targeted experiments with advanced analytics—building visualizations for multidimensional datasets and developing statistical approaches like differential allele-specific expression. His background spans academia and industry, including PhD-level work in spatial RNA-seq in Drosophila at UC Berkeley and roles advancing variant interpretation and dry-lab operations at Invitae. Peter is a proponent of robust computational practices (Snakemake, GitHub, code review) and has a strong track record of communicating results through conferences and peer-reviewed publications. Notably, he bridges wet-lab intuition and computational rigor, often following up in silico leads with small-scale experiments to validate biological hypotheses.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biophysics, PhD Biophysics at University of California, BerkeleyThe Harker SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) 2008, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) 2008 at Princeton University
Github Skills (41)
gene-expression9
genome8
rna-seq8
sequencing8
seq8
bioinformatics7
python-bindings7
genomics7
predictor6
wasp6
spatial5
percentage5
fastq5
ase5
agent-based-modeling5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
petercombs/EisenLab-Code
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 release, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
random-collectionthesis
TheFraserLab/ASEr
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
bamspipelinefastqcountsrepackage
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