Hi, my name is Kyle!

I am a Bioinformatics Senior at VCU. My passion is to solve biological questions using all the available tools that humankind has to offer with an emphasis on bioinformatic approaches.

My interests include, but are not limited to: Learning languages (natural/programming), Programming, Immunology, Protein Structure and Making Arts.

Skills

Programming

Python
Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, BioPython.

Java R Programming SAS Programming
with SQL

Google Cloud Platform

Bioinformatics

Workflow Languages and Dependencies
Nextflow, WDL, CWL, Snakemake, Docker, Conda.

Genome Assembly/Analysis
SRATools, BowTie2, Hisat2, FASTQC, Trimmomatic, ABYSS, SamTools, Bam, Stringtie

General
Blast, I-TASSER, Pymol, Chimera, TMHMM, MUSCLE, Clustal.

Softwares

Front-end
HTML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, RST.

Github Android

Experience

Bioinformatic Engineer Intern

● Develop Bioinformatics workflows on Google Cloud Platform (GCP):
  ○ Snakemake, CWL, WDL, Nextflow pipelines
● Create front-end web pages to display the workflows, documentations:
  ○ Git Version Control for back end data
  ○ Documentation in ISB-CGC read the docs

Bioinformatic Intern

● Assemble Haematomyzus elephantis’s endosymbiont sequences from Sequence Read Archive data
● Metabolic pathways annotation
● Phylogenetic study

President

● Managing a group of Bioinformatic board members to host social events
● Hosting coding workshops
● Designing mechandises, logos, banners
● Creating and excuting visions, plans for the Society

Projects

Tutorials for Workflow on Google Cloud

Tutorials and sample workflows designed to introduce users on how to run workflows in the CWL, Nextflow, Snakemake and WDL on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).