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.
11 years of coding experience
VCE, 96.25, VCE, 96.25 at Castlemaine Secondary CollegeThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (49)
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
illumina10
bam9
snakemake9
r-package9
prepare9
genome8
perl-module8
infectious-diseases8
r-language8
docker-build8
next-generation-sequencing7
knitr7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bahlolab/Bio-STR-exSTRa
May 2017 - Aug 2022
Prepare BAM/CRAM for exSTRa R package
Contributions:5 releases, 103 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years 3 months
r-packagecramrstatsbamprepare
trickytank/rwarrior
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
R Warrior - R implemention of Ruby Warrior
Contributions:3 releases, 483 commits, 78 PRs in 1 month
warriorruby
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