Yasin Memari
Senior Bioinformatics Analyst
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYasin Memari is a Senior Bioinformatics Analyst with 12 years’ experience applying computational genomics, statistics and machine learning to cancer and population sequencing projects across leading UK institutions. Trained as a physicist and now a statistical geneticist, he has led GWAS, rare variant and somatic mutation analyses, co-led deployment of OpenCGA for cancer variant storage, and won a DREAM Challenge for predictive biomarker discovery in AML. His background spans petabyte-scale workflow automation and data QC at the Wellcome Sanger Institute through to pipeline development and teaching machine learning at the University of Cambridge. Comfortable in both research and operational settings, he blends deep quantitative rigor with practical software engineering and is open to consultancy. An underappreciated strength is his cross-disciplinary fluency—from high-energy physics training to hands-on bioinformatics—enabling creative problem solving in complex genomic data environments.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics and Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics and Astronomy at The University of EdinburghDiploma, High Energy Physics, Diploma, High Energy Physics at International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)Successive PhD Program, Physics, Successive PhD Program, Physics at Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan
Github Skills (13)
signature9
r-package9
bioinformatics8
pipeline6
codebase5
genomics4
data-processing2
dockstore2
big-data2
assembly1
docker1
assemble1
breakpoints1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Nik-Zainal-Group/Sarek
Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
Detect germline or somatic variants from normal or tumour/normal whole-genome sequencing data
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
whole-genome-sequencinggenomesequencing-datanormalsequencing
VertebrateResequencing/vr-pipe
May 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:145 commits, 67 pushes in 3 years 7 months
pipelinegenericworkflow
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