Timothy O’Connor, PhD, draws on decades of experience working on the boundary between bioinformatics and software engineering to provide support to clients through O’Connor Informatics Consulting.
He focuses throughout the research process on the goal of developing products that make research and discoveries accessible to the non-expert and has extensive experience with each part of this process.
Since the early 2000s, he’s used software engineering and machine learning to perform multiple tasks, such as visualizing gene expression regulation mechanisms, facial recognition, predicting protein folding structures, and interpreting non-coding variants across genomes.
Throughout his time at various companies—Microsoft, Phenomix Sciences, and Illumina included—he has continued using software engineering both to perform research and develop products. He is equally adept at these tasks, whether it is developing NGS informatics pipelines, developing processes to validate products for regulatory guidelines, or developing user interfaces.
Along with holding 5 patents, his research has been published in journals such as Molecular Cell, Nucleic Acids Research, Brain and Neuroscience Advances, and Bioinformatics.