Basel Abu-jamous
Director Of Computational Biology
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBasel Abu-jamous is a director of computational biology who leads strategy and execution of bioinformatics, machine learning, and data science at Nucleome Therapeutics, with a focus on decoding the non-coding genome to discover novel therapies. Based in Oxford and with both London and academia-to-industry experience, he builds cross-disciplinary teams that bridge genomics, drug discovery, statistics, and software engineering. During his PhD work on the C4 Rice Project, he developed the Clust algorithm to extract optimal co-expressed gene clusters and contributed to the discovery of a chloroplast pyruvate exporter, advancing C4 photosynthesis research. He actively educates the next generation as a Senior Bioinformatics Educational Advisor at Phi Science Institute and coordinates bioinformatics programs with the Jordanian Genetics and Bioinformatics Association, while advising biotech ventures like Bionl.ai. With a track record spanning academia, biopharma, and health data science, he combines hands-on research with leadership and a knack for turning complex biology into scalable, impact-driven solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Brunel University London
Arabic, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
bioinformatics10
heterogeneous10
conda10
package-management10
clustering10
recipes10
datasets10
bioconda9
consensus9
python-bindings5
python3
python-extension2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BaselAbujamous/clust
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
Automatic and optimised consensus clustering of one or more heterogeneous datasets
Contributions:38 releases, 217 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 8 months
consensus-clusteringheterogeneousconsensusclusteringdatasets
BaselAbujamous/bioconda-recipes
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:25 pushes in 3 years 8 months
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticsbinder
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