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nrminor/README.md

Hi there 👋

I'm a biologist who develops research software with an emphasis on reproducibility, ease-of-use, and performance. Before my current position in David H. O'Connor's group at University of Wisconsin - Madison, I worked in bird population genomics and speciation at University of Wyoming and at University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. I've also worked in collection and database management at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the Bell Museum of Natural History in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

My research interests include:

  • population and speciation genomics
  • evolutionary ecology
  • immunogenomics
  • scientific reproducibility
  • parallel and distributed computing
  • data structure innovation
  • low-carbon computing
  • programming language design
  • statically-typed languages in science

My entry to programming, like many biologists, was R, and I still regularly do stats and data visualization with R. Nowadays, I do most of my scientific computing in Python, and for special applications, I'm a huge fan of Rust. I also write a lot in domain-specific languages, most notably Nextflow to design pipelines, but also Docker to run software on different compute architectures, Quarto-dialect markdown to render documents and presentations, and Just to manage projects. I also love trying out new languages, with OCaml and Gleam being my latest fascinations.

Collaboration is one the best parts of science. If you also develop research software or work on some of the same topics, I'd love to connect, bounce off ideas, and make the most of open-source software development together.

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  1. oneroof oneroof Public

    Base-, Variant-, and Consensus-calling under One Proverbial Roof. Work in progress!

    Python 4 3

  2. nf-RASH nf-RASH Public

    Take PacBio HiFi and Nanopore reads and perform de novo assembly on specific regions of the genome—or the whole thing!

    Nextflow

  3. dholab/dairy-hpai-monitoring dholab/dairy-hpai-monitoring Public

    Real-Time Monitoring of HPAI Detections in One or More Dairy Products in the United States

    Python 7 1

  4. give-a-sheet give-a-sheet Public

    Auto-generate type-validated, error-free input samplesheets for the nf-core pipeline you want to run. Pipeline support is limited at this stage, but more pipelines will be added in the future.

    Rust

  5. dholab/air-metagenomics dholab/air-metagenomics Public archive

    Analysis Pipeline for Minor and Ramuta et al. 2023: Metagenomic sequencing detects human respiratory and enteric viruses in air samples collected from congregate settings

    Nextflow 2

  6. E484T-visualizations E484T-visualizations Public archive

    Halfmann and Minor et al. 2022 visualizations of a persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection that led to globally unique E484T mutation

    R 1 1