Rick Tankard
Freelance Data Scientist, Statistician, Bioinformatician
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRick Tankard is a Melbourne-based data scientist, statistician and bioinformatician with 11 years’ experience applying statistical learning and scalable pipelines to genetic and neurological disease research. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and a strong maths/statistics background, and has built Snakemake workflows to process hundreds of whole genomes on HPC and updated tools for linkage and repeat-expansion detection used in rare-disease studies. Comfortable moving between hands-on sequence analysis, R package development and elastic-net modelling, he’s worked across academic consortia to generate meta-analysis-ready summary statistics. Now freelancing, he combines deep domain knowledge in neurological disorders with reproducible computational practices—and, perhaps tellingly, a fondness for ducks.
12 years of coding experience
VCE, 96.25, VCE, 96.25 at Castlemaine Secondary CollegeThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (42)
sequencing10
illumina10
r-package9
algorithm9
sequence9
genome8
perl-module8
infectious-diseases8
docker-build8
r8
next-generation-sequencing8
snakemake8
ggplot7
r-language7
workflow-management6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bahlolab/exSTRa
Jul 2014 - Sep 2022
Expanded STR algorithm for Illumina sequencing data
Contributions:10 releases, 694 commits, 95 PRs in 8 years 3 months
illuminasequencing
trickytank/docker-Bio-STR-exSTRa
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Docker build for the Perl module Bio::STR::exSTRa
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 7 months
biostrdocker-builddockerperl
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