William Wysocki
Senior Bioinformatician
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Wysocki is a Senior Bioinformatician with nine years of experience specializing in next-generation sequencing, phylogenomics, and transcriptomics, currently leading user services for the Genomic Data Commons at the University of Chicago. He combines hands-on pipeline development and UNIX-based tooling with custom Python and R scripting to assemble and analyze full plastomes and large NGS datasets, and has co-authored multiple phylogenomic publications. Experienced in both computational and lab workflows, he also manages data organization and security for high-throughput projects and mentors students on research and reproducible analysis. His background spans academic research roles and scientific support positions, reflecting a practical ability to translate complex genomic methods into robust, user-facing data services.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at University of Illinois at ChicagoGeneral Education, General Education at College of DuPageDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology at Northern Illinois UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Biology, Master of Science (MSc), Biology at Roosevelt University
Github Skills (15)
gdc10
markdown10
dictionary10
data-dictionary10
metadata6
vignette5
bioconductor4
genomics3
core-services3
bioinformatics3
api-client3
data-science2
portal2
commons2
r1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wwysoc2/gdc-tsv-tool
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Metadata in TSV format for GDC files
Contributions:3 releases, 2 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 3 months
tsvgdcmetadatatsv-format
wwysoc2/gdc-submission
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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