William Chow
Director Of Genomics at Basecamp Research
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Chow is a genomics leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling bioinformatics workflows and genome assembly projects, now serving as Director of Genomics at Basecamp Research in Cambridge. He spent more than a decade at the Wellcome Sanger Institute contributing to major reference assemblies (GRCh, T2T, zebrafish, mouse, pig) and to large international efforts such as Genome10K, Darwin Tree of Life and the Earth BioGenome Project. William combines deep technical expertise in assembly, curation and multi-platform sequencing (PacBio, Bionano, Hi-C, LinkedReads) with operational leadership—having led genomics teams and production pipelines at Basecamp. He’s comfortable bridging research and production, having built genome evaluation browsers and reproducible workflows used by manual curation teams. A practical problem-solver with a background spanning clinical trials protocol work to computational finishing, he brings a rare mix of wet-lab context and software-first genome engineering.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Biomedical Technology (1yr professional degree) Clinical Trials Business Development, Master of Biomedical Technology (1yr professional degree) Clinical Trials Business Development at University of CalgaryBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (27)
fasta8
file-manipulation8
bioinformatics7
fastq7
sequence7
manipulation5
golang4
science3
cross-platform3
biology3
variants3
linux3
pepper3
margin2
python1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wchow/wtsi-geval-plugin
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
kfcteh/genomereshuffled
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 7 comments in 23 days
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