Stuart Jefferys
Research Associate
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorStuart Jefferys is a research-focused computational biologist with a PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology and over 11 years of experience building and maintaining high-throughput sequencing and mass spectrometry pipelines. Based at UNC Lineberger, he blends deep bioinformatics expertise—RNA-Seq, proteomics, posttranslational modification analysis—with solid software engineering skills in Java and Perl developed across academic and industry roles. His background in physics and applied math underpins a quantitative approach to data analysis and optimization techniques such as simulated annealing. Stuart’s thesis and early career work on mass-spec proteomics gave him practical experience turning complex experimental data into reproducible pipelines and research tools. Ambitious about transitioning to a computational biology post-doc, he’s also focused on collecting and developing a suite of research tools that can scale to lead a future research group. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges domain science and production-grade code.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
963reputation
69kreached
17answers
3questions
Github Skills (67)
docker9
bioinformatics9
documentation8
conda8
r-package8
package-management7
bioconda7
maven6
eclipse6
bookdown6
spelling6
maven-javadoc-plugin6
enums6
spellchecker6
maven-site-plugin6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sararselitsky/FastPG
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Fast phenograph, CyTOF
Contributions:55 commits, 3 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 9 months
phenographcytof
jefferys/JefferysRUtils
Sep 2016 - Jun 2024
My bag of tricks for R coding
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 7 years 10 months
bagtricksrstats
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