Chris Childers
Geneticist (Bioinformatics)
Beltsville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Childers is a geneticist and bioinformatics engineer with 11 years of experience building community-focused genome annotation infrastructure and model organism databases. Based at USDA-ARS in Beltsville, he designs and implements next-generation sequence assembly and analysis pipelines, combining hands-on Python and Perl development with database and web platform engineering. His career blends academic rigor from a Ph.D. in Genetics with practical IT and system administration skills developed across universities and government labs. Notably, he focuses on enabling genomics for emerging non-model organisms—a niche that requires both flexible tooling and strong data-management practices.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Genetics, Ph.D., Genetics at Texas A&M UniversityB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at West Texas A&M University
Github Skills (58)
blast10
biology10
clustal10
javascript10
grails10
groovy10
java-server10
gwt10
jbrowse10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
gff10
apollo10
backend10
genomics-visualization10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
NAL-i5K/jbrowse
Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
Customized version of jbrowse used for NAL-i5k
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years
customizedjbrowsenal
NAL-i5K/Apollo
Mar 2017 - Jun 2023
Customized version of Apollo, which is a genome annotation editor with a Java Server backend and a Javascript client that runs in a web browser as a JBrowse plugin.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 86 pushes in 6 years 3 months
apollobackendgenome-annotationjava-serverjavascript
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