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Samantha Klasfeld - Computational Biologist currently based in Cambridge, MA

Greetings! I’m Samantha Klasfeld, I am working on building this website to showcase my career as I pursue my next professional opportunity.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania | Perelman School of Medicine | Philadelphia, PA Doctor of Philosophy in Genomics and Computational Biology, 2015-2021

• Cornell University | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Ithaca, NY Bachelor of Science in Biology, Concentration in Computational Biology, 2010-2014

Skills and Expertise

• Workflow development: published ChIP-seq methods, experience with Github, Docker, conda, Nextflow, Snakemake
• Programming languages: Unix/Linux, Python, R programming, command line, git, SQL, Apache spark, Matlab, Perl, and Java
• Genomics software: BWA, Bowtie, Bowtie2, STAR, kallisto, MACS2, UMAP, Blacklist, DiffBind, DESeq2, EdgeR, sleuth, DANPOS2, DANPOS3, FASTQC, bedtools, samtools, deeptools, MEME, HOMER, AHA, PBJelly, miRDeep2, miRDeep*, miREAP, miRdentify, Centroidfold, CAP-miRSeq
• Databases: UK Biobank, gnomAD, GTex, ClinVar, dbNSFP, Clingen, Genebass, dbSNP
• Genetics software: PLINK, VCFtools, bcftools, VEP, LOFTEE, MutPred2, ESM1b, AlphaMissense