Scott Daniel
Bioinformatics Scientist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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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 (80)
nmf10
population-genetics10
comparative-genomics10
cytoscapejs9
bioinformatics9
distance-matrix9
trend9
jedi9
metagenomics9
rna-seq8
science8
ncbi8
bacteria8
genome-assembly8
seq8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sunbeam-labs/sbx_vsearch
Jun 2019 - Jun 2024
Sunbeam extension for Vsearch (https://github.com/torognes/vsearch)
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
PennChopMicrobiomeProgram/PCMP_ITS_pipeline
May 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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