Tazro Ohta
Associate Professor
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolTazro Ohta is an Associate Professor and bioinformatics engineer in Tokyo with 14 years of experience building data infrastructure for large-scale genomics and medical machine learning. He has led development of key open resources—such as Quanto and ChIP-Atlas—and designs high-performance, cloud-enabled pipelines and semantic web applications that make complex -omics data findable and usable. At Chiba University and the Database Center for Life Science he bridges academic research and production-grade systems, focusing on data quality, open data, and reproducible workflows for clinical applications. A PhD-trained bioinformatician with hands-on expertise in HPC and cloud infrastructure, he also contributes to cross-institutional projects at RIKEN, reflecting a talent for translating research needs into scalable engineering. His Github tagline, “#WeAreHackersWeDance,” hints at a pragmatic, playful approach to open-source collaboration and problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at The Graduate University for Advanced StudiesBachelor, Agriculture, Bachelor, Agriculture at Kobe University
Github Skills (139)
seq10
atlas10
browser10
science10
database10
data-analysis10
reference-implementation10
common-workflow-language10
bioinformatics10
api-specification9
rna-seq9
nmf9
describe9
structural-variation9
dump9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
inutano/docker-wget
Mar 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
inutano/biosampleplus-pipeline
Jun 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 6 months
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