Brian Walsh
- Sr. Research Software Engineer
Biography
After spending a career in consulting and startups it is a privilege to collaborate with great teams on such worthwhile, meaningful projects.
Current research focus:
* Increasing statistical power by lowering barriers to entry and streamlining access to diverse datasets
* Improving the reach of precision medicine by capturing `evidence` from integration, text mining and machine learning
* Facilitating reproducibility, reuse and cost via Graph databases and Cloud management
Education and training
Memberships and associations:
- https://www.ga4gh.org/
- https://cancervariants.org/
- https://www.genome.gov/Funded-Programs-Projects/Computational-Genomics-and-Data-Science-Program/Genomic-Analysis-Visualization-Informatics-Lab-space-AnVIL
Areas of interest
- Graph Databases
- Machine Learning
- Pan Cancer, Cross Project Data Harmonization
Additional information
Publications
Selected publications
- A harmonized meta-knowledgebase of clinical interpretations of cancer genomic variants - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/07/11/366856.full.pdf
- Exploring Integrative Analysis using the BioMedical Evidence Graph - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/09/25/773911.full.pdf