Scott Norton
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Norton is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with nine years of experience bridging computational methods, mathematics, and genomics to advance early drug-target discovery and neurodevelopmental research. With a PhD in Genomics and Computational Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, he has developed robust RNA-seq and splicing tools for large heterogeneous datasets and implemented pipelines used in PsychENCODE studies of autism-related brain development. At Yale he combined wet-lab design (oligonucleotide/enhancer assays in organoids) with computational regulatory-network modeling, and now applies that translational focus at Merck’s Exploratory Science Center. A polyglot programmer (Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Bash) who also contributes to ambitious reverse-engineering open-source projects, he brings both deep algorithmic rigor and practical systems-building to complex biological data problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genomics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genomics and Computational Biology at University of Pennsylvania School of MedicineBachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Connecticut
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Github Skills (21)
assembly10
decompilation10
c1110
pokemongo10
gameboy-advance10
data-structure10
c1710
data-structures10
game-development10
reverse-engineering10
memory-management9
arm6
raspberry-pi6
argparse6
subparsers6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pret/pokeruby
May 2017 - Dec 2017
Decompilation of Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:246 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on deconstructing the code for Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire. The contributions involve decompiling Pokémon game code, specifically relating to internal game structures, data, and field object operations. The user's work centers on reverse engineering and understanding the game's inner workings. The commits demonstrate the user's ability to reverse-engineer and decompile assembly code.
monsapphirerubydecompilationgameboy-advance
pret/pokeemerald
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
Decompilation of Pokémon Emerald
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:143 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to the decompilation of Pokémon Emerald by implementing and refactoring functions related to map object handling, including those for setting directions and graphics, getting object IDs, and managing camera updates. The commits involved creating and modifying C and assembly code, including the addition of new functions and data structures to manage various field objects and their properties. The contributions centered on improving the functionality of the game's field object system.
cppmondecompilationemeraldgameboy-advance
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