Scott Daniel
Bioinformatics Scientist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Daniel is a bioinformatics scientist with 11 years of experience translating complex microbiome and sequencing data into publishable insights, currently leading analyses at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He designs scalable pipelines and custom scripts (Python, Perl, R) to analyze 16S, shotgun metagenomics, ITS and metatranscriptomic datasets across multiple hosts and tissues, and authors statistical reports that feed directly into manuscripts. A PhD-trained molecular biologist with a practical IT background, he bridges computational rigor and hands-on systems know-how—having built databases, administered servers, and provided desktop support earlier in his career. He mentors junior scientists, develops new tools to expand analytical repertoires, and has a track record of mapping hundreds of millions of reads for high-throughput studies. Colleagues rely on him to make complex genomic results accessible to diverse stakeholders while driving reproducible, well-documented workflows.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at University of California, BerkeleyThe University of ArizonaH.S. Diploma, General Studies, H.S. Diploma, General Studies at Aliso Niguel High School
German
Stackoverflow
109reputation
23kreached
2answers
8questions
Github Skills (61)
trend10
population-genetics10
comparative-genomics10
distance-matrix9
genomes9
genome-assembly9
bioinformatics9
metagenomics9
genomics8
rna-seq8
unit-test8
bacteria8
qiime8
science8
sequence8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
scottdaniel/16S_QIIME2
Jun 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 71 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 9 months
16sqiime2snakemakepipeline
scottdaniel/scotts-fortune
Jan 2016 - May 2026
Contributions:52 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 5 months
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