PeerJ Reviewer

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Ajinkya Sunil Kokate

PeerJ Reviewer

Summary

Software engineering and bioinformatics skills to tackle new challenges in a research setting and contribute to the development and better understanding of science.

Bioinformatics Computational Biology Computational Science Data Science Genomics Mathematical Biology Programming Languages Software Engineering

Work details

Senior Staff Bioinformatics Software Engineer

Prognomiq Inc

October 2021

Data science

1) Currently leading discovery of disease specific markers from genomics datasets based on plasma and whole blood. 2) Discovered evidence for novel intron retention and immature transcription events in cancer from whole blood RNA-Seq.

Software Engineer

Nabsys Inc

March 2014 - August 2015

Bioinformatics Software Engineer 2

Illumina Inc

December 2015 - March 2016

Research

Contributed to development of a HPC based bioinformatics pipeline for variant calling from NGS sequencing (WES) datasets of cell free DNA.

Bioinformatics Software Engineer 2

Grail Inc

March 2016 - July 2020

Data Science

1) Discovered DNA methylation based evidence for non-invasive detection of Non-Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis (NASH) in patients with type-II diabetes. 2) Engineered a data format for metrics and distributions generated by a bioinformatics pipeline, which significantly reduced AWS storage cost per patient sample to ~ 1% and also optimized access to data.

Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

Pact Pharma Inc

July 2020 - October 2021

Designed and led development of a serverless bioinformatics application for quality control (QC) analysis of synthetic sequences using AWS

PeerJ Contributions

Reviewed 7

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

February 28, 2025

Skin microbiota variation in Indian families

Renuka Potbhare, Ameeta RaviKumar, Eveliina Munukka, Leo Lahti, Richa Ashma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18881 PubMed 40034669

January 22, 2025

Altered expression of miRNA profile in peripheral blood mononuclear cells following the third dose of inactivated COVID-19 vaccine

Guanguan Qiu, Ruoyang Zhang, Huifeng Qian, Ruoqiong Huang, Jie Xia, Ruoxi Zang, Zhenkai Le, Qiang Shu, Jianguo Xu, Guoping Zheng, Jiangmei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18856 PubMed 39866557

November 8, 2024

Exploring the value of hybrid capture-based next-generation sequencing technology in the suspected diagnosis of bloodstream infections

Xinyuan Liu, Zhitao Gan, Zengshun Lin, Xiaojun Lin, Jianying Yuan, Lili Rong, Jiachang Chen, Jun Liu, Yingzhen Li, Chaohui Hu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18471 PubMed 39529632

October 30, 2024

Identification and validation of autophagy-related genes in Hirschsprung’s disease

Ting Yao, Zenghui Hao, Wei Fan, Jinbao Han, Shuyu Wang, Zaiqun Jiang, Yunting Wang, Xiao Qian Yang, Zhilin Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18376 PubMed 39494277

September 24, 2024

RNA sequencing identifies lung cancer lineage and facilitates drug repositioning

Longjin Zeng, Longyao Zhang, Lingchen Li, Xingyun Liao, Chenrui Yin, Lincheng Zhang, Xiewan Chen, Jianguo Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18159 PubMed 39346064

September 18, 2024

Comprehensive analysis of macrophage-associated inflammatory genes in AMI based on bulk combined with single-cell sequencing data

Xugang Kong, Guangjun Jin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17981 PubMed 39308815

September 16, 2024

MME and PTPRC: key renal biomarkers in lupus nephritis

Min Wen, Marady Hun, Mingyi Zhao, Qingnan He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18070 PubMed 39301055