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Name Jessica Kan
Label Clinical Scientist Bioinformatician
Url https://jessk789550.github.io/
Summary A bioinformatician in the NHS processing DNA sequencing data for patients

Work

  • 2022.09 - Present
    Trainee Healthcare Scientist
    NHS
    Added tools to Python Ruffus Pipelines, created an R Shiny app, updated a Django app after merging two databases together
    • Django
    • R Shiny
    • Python Ruffus

Volunteer

  • 2022.11 - 2025.05

    Online

    Co-editor
    STP Perspectives
    Organised, edited, and wrote posts for the NHS STP blog
    • Represented STP Perspectives at the Induction Day.

Education

  • 2022.09 - 2025.08

    UK

    MSc
    University of Manchester
    Bioinformatics
    • Software Engineering
    • Diagnostic Sequencing
    • Service Delivery
    • Data science and statistics

Languages

English
Native
German
Basic

Interests

Bioinformatics
Django
Machine learning
Long-read sequencing
R Shiny
Nextflow
DNAnexus