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Justin H. Johnson

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Frederick, MD

Proven and highly competent engineer, biotechnology manager, and entrepreneur with over years experience in providing intuitive project management, professional leadership, and deep technical understanding on a wide variety of biotechnology and web based projects. Justin formerly was Director of Bioinformatics, Genomic Services and IT at EdgeBio, a CLIA certified Genomics and Bioinformatics Company. There he oversaw the construction of data analysis pipelines and associated automation infrastructure to support Illumina HiSeqs MiSeq, Ion Torrents, and SOLiD sequencers with associated LIMs systems, in a production environment. His focus is on large scale informatics challenges and engaging his team, collaborations and the community to address these challenges through integrated, open approaches. Previously, he spent years at TIGR and the J. Craig Venter institute. He is also an advocate of data standardization for next generation sequencing platforms through the Genome Standards Consortium. He has been an invited speaker and chair at several Bio-IT and genomic conferences, and currently is a working group chair of the NIST Genome in a Bottle Initiative and the project lead of the Archon Genomics XPrize Validation Protocol which are both developing the reference materials, reference data, and reference methods needed to assess performance of human genome sequencing in a clinical setting. Specialties Next Generation Sequencing Analysis, Cloud and High Performance Computing, ScaaS (Science as a Service), Bioinformatics Software Development, Social Media and the Life Science (Outreach, Education, and Integration) read more ...