Asma Bankapur
Bioinformatics Analyst
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAsma Bankapur is a bioinformatics analyst with 11 years of experience building and maintaining NGS pipelines, data archives, and cloud migrations across research institutions including the Broad Institute and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. She combines strong Python engineering skills with hands-on genomics expertise—ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq, and WGS ONT—having deployed Galaxy portals and automated workflows for lab-scale production. Her open-source contributions to the widely used bioconda-recipes repository show practical experience packaging and debugging bioinformatics tools and CI configurations to ensure reproducible installations. Comfortable managing Linux servers, cluster/Grid environments and multithreaded data processing, she brings both engineering rigor and domain knowledge to bridge computational infrastructure and biological analysis.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MS) Bioinformatics at Georgetown UniversityBachelor's degree Bioinformatics, Bachelor's degree Bioinformatics at Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
bioinformatics10
conda10
bash10
package-management10
python9
cicd7
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 73 PRs, 25 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Asma primarily contributed to the development of recipes for the bioconda channel, focusing on bioinformatics tools. Their work involved modifying build scripts (build.sh) for various packages, including CTAT-related tools like CTAT-metagenomics, CTAT-lncrna, and CTAT-mutations. They addressed installation paths, file permissions, and dependencies to ensure proper package installation within the conda environment. The user also debugged and updated recipes and modified CircleCI configuration.
biocondacondabioinformaticspackage-management
asmariyaz23/Long-reads
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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