Ibrahim Vazirabad

Bioinformatics Analyst
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Bioinformatician with ten years of experience in the field. I have worked on a range of projects in both the clinical and basic research sphere.

Work Experience

Bioinformatics Analyst III

Medical College of Wisconsin | 2022 - Present

Support the Physiology Department with their NGS assay analysis.

  • Experience includes bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq analysis, CLIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, etc.

Bioinformatics Support Analyst

Versiti Wisconsin | 2015 - 2022

Support the development of NGS pipelines to report actionable genomic variants discovered by the suite of diagnostic NGS assays.

  • Responsible for upkeep of clinical bioinformatics pipeline.
  • Published a peer-reviewed article in BBMT.

Bioinformatics Research Assistant

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | 2014 - 2015

I developed NGS analysis pipelines for both RNA-Seq and WES data. Wrote scripts to identify de novo germline and somatic homozygous variants to aid in clinical diagnosis of rare Mendelian diseases.

Data Analyst

Microbe Detectives | 2013 - 2014

Identified causes and proposed solutions to issues in wastewater treatment via analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA sequencing results, water chemistry data, and process information. Prepared client reports based on this data.

Software Development Intern

Google Summer of Code - Open Bioinformatics Foundation | Summer 2014

Improved a compatibility module between JSBML and CellDesigner, tools used in biochemical network modeling.

Bioinformatics Data Intern

Medical College of Wisconsin | 2012 - 2013

Algorithm development and data curation for utilization in the clinical variant analysis software package Carpe Novo.

Publications