My name is Patricia Tran and I'm a Bioinformatics Scientist & Research Cyberinfrastructure Specialist for the Department of Bacteriology at UW-Madison.
I use, teach and train researchers on how to use bioinformatics and data science skills in research. Some foundational skills are using Bash to write code and interact with software. I also build containers (Docker, Apptainer), and use workflow managers (Nextflow, Snakemake) to automate pipelines. We rely on many useful tools such as anaconda's package managers. I implement, troubleshoot, and teach users how to use computing infrastructure (which uses HTCondor and SLURM job schedulers) to submit, manage, and run jobs on remote cyberinfrastructure. For post-sequencing data analysis, I use R and Python. I also sometimes volunteer with the Carpentries.