Dhwani Batra

About Dhwani Batra

Bioinformatics Scientist with over 10 years of experience in Genome Sequencing and Data Analysis. Have extensive hands-on experience with integrating all major nextgen sequencing platforms(454, Illumina, Ion Torrent, Pacbio) in post-sequencing pipelines. I have worked both as a Bioinformatics Data Analyst and System Administrator and have the ability to translate the needs of the scientific community and help implement the effective and customized solution by the Scientific Computing team.Other Interests: High performance Computing (Cluster Computing), SGE, Linux Administration, LIMS, Big Data in Life Sciences and its impact.My specialty is troubleshooting: breaking down a problem and arrive at an optimal solution.

Experience

1. Lead Health Scientist

   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

   May 2022 — Present

Education

• Faculty of Management Studies - University of Delhi

  MBA, Finance / Marketing

  1997 — 1999

• Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow

  Bachelors of Engineering and Technology, Computer Science

  1993 — 1997

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master of Science, Bioinformatics

  2002 — 2004

Skills

• Ion Torrent Data Analysis
• Clc Genomics Server
• Java
• Sge Administration
• Linux System Administration
• Python
• Mysql
• Phylogenetics
• Variant Detection
• Smrtanalysis
• System Administration
• Snp Genotyping
• Rocks
• Clc Genomics Workbench
• Redhat
• Postgresql
• Ubuntu
• Data Mining
• Sge
• Genomics
• High Performance Computing
• Unix Operating Systems
• Nextgen Sequencing Data Analysis
• Bioinformatics
• Sequence Analysis
• Hpc
• Geneious
• Perl
• Cluster Computing
• Bioperl
• Web Applications
• Centos