Skylar Wyant
Computational Research Assistant
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSkylar Wyant is a computational research assistant with 10 years of experience applying engineering rigor to bioinformatics, genetics, and NGS sequencing pipelines. Based in the Twin Cities, Skylar built and maintains sequencing workflows used in multiple published research projects, learning programming and genomics independently to bridge wet-lab and computational needs. With a chemical engineering background and hands-on process optimization experience from Cargill pilot plants, Skylar combines experimental insight with reproducible data analysis. As an evolutionary genetics graduate student in the Gaut Lab and former Morrell Lab bioinformatician, they bring domain fluency in population genetics and practical pipeline engineering. Colleagues rely on Skylar for turning complex sequencing data into robust, publishable results and for rapidly adapting tools to new experimental designs.
10 years of coding experience
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (15)
next-generation-sequencing10
pipeline9
sequence9
crossword9
python7
sequencing5
automation5
genomics4
bioinformatics4
prediction3
machine-learning2
genetics1
mutation1
biology1
evolutionary1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MorrellLAB/Soy_Downsampling
May 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Aerin13/AdvancedInformaticsExercises
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Eco Evo 283 exercises
Contributions:12 PRs, 8 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
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