Tommy Au
Molecular Pathology Technical Supervisor
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolTommy Au is a molecular pathology technical supervisor and bioinformatician with over a decade of experience translating high-throughput and nanopore sequencing into clinical diagnostics at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital. He holds a PhD in microbial genomics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and has authored 25 peer-reviewed papers in top journals, including methodological work cited in AMP/CAP NGS bioinformatics pipeline guidelines. Tommy develops clinical-grade tools (ITDseek, INDELseek, BAMClipper) used to detect clinically actionable variants such as FLT3 indels in blood cancers, bridging research and routine diagnostics. He maintains active academic collaborations as an honorary researcher at both CUHK and HKU, combining hands-on lab sequencing, pipeline development, and regulatory-minded bioinformatics. Notably, his career spans roles from bench research to clinical bioinformatics implementation, giving him rare end-to-end expertise in turning genomic methods into validated clinical tests.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Github Skills (9)
clipping9
bam8
sequence7
seq5
rna-seq4
genomics3
bioinformatics3
snakemake3
scalable2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tommyau/itdseek
Nov 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 14 pushes in 3 years 3 months
tommyau/bamclipper
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Remove primer sequence from BAM alignments by soft-clipping
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 10 pushes in 7 months
primerclippingsequencealignmentsalignment
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