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What I Do

Hey! I’m Shaurita D. Hutchins, a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in their Graduate Biomedical Sciences (GBS) Doctoral Training Program and a member of the Center for Computational Genomics and Data Science (CGDS) under the mentorship of Dr. Liz Worthey.

I’ve always been passionate about healthcare, and that passion has grown into a desire to bridge technology and health outcomes. Computational Biology can bridge the gap between the genomic level of diseases to the clinical aspect of diseases which ultimately would lead to an improvement in precision medicine. I also desire to create better tools for scientists and consumers to analyze health-related data.

Skills

Python | pandas, BioPython

80%

R | tidyverse, renv

80%

Shell Scripting | Bash

75%

Workflows | nextflow

50%

HPC | SLURM

70%

Cloud Computing | AWS, OpenStack

60%

Data Wrangling | pandas, dplyr

80%

Data Viz | ggplot2, plotly

80%

Biostats

70%

Genomics | VEP, hail

75%

Transcriptomics | DESeq2, ClusterProfiler

70%

Databases

45%

AI & Machine Learning | NLP, LLMs

55%

Project Management | Wrike

80%

Version Control | Git, Gitlab, GitHub

75%

Web Apps | Dash, Shiny, Streamlit

70%

Interests

In my spare time, I serve as a developer for a basketball forum, build websites, and analyze NBA data using Python. Additionally, I love exploring nature, studying in parks, gardening, photography, writing poetry and short stories, and cooking.

Publications

In Vitro Effects of Ligand Bias on Primate Mu Opioid Receptor Downstream Signaling

Xiao Zhang, Shaurita D. Hutchins, Bruce E. Blough, Eric J. Vallender

Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21(11), 3999

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MicrobiomeR: An R Package for Simplified and Standardized Microbiome Analysis Workflows

Robert A. Gilmore, Shaurita D. Hutchins, Xiao Zhang, Eric J. Vallender

Journal of Open Source Software, 2019

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Prior Work Projects (Vallender Lab)

MicrobiomeR MicrobiomeR is an R package for microbiome analysis that incorporates phyloseq, metacoder, taxa, and microbiome in order to standardize and simplify common microbiome workflows.
OrthoEvolution OrthoEvolution is an easy to use and comprehensive python package which aids in the analysis and visualization of orthologous genes.
htseq-count-cluster htseq-count-cluster is a CLI for running multiple qsub jobs with HTSeq's htseq-count script on a SGE/SGI cluster.

Collaborative Projects

awesome-rshiny An awesome R-shiny list!
beRi beRi is an R environment, R installation, and R package management system for the R programming language.
OpenOmics A bioinformatics API to interface with public multi-omics bio databases for wicked fast data integration.

Personal Projects

flask-demo flask-demo is a demo of a website built with the Flask framework that includes a dummy login page.
labrat labrat is a basic science lab framework aimed at reproducibility and lab management.

Tutorials & Guides

gbs-guide An unofficial guide for students entering the Graduate Biomedical Sciences (GBS) doctoral program at UAB.
grad-school-app-toolkit A comprehensive toolkit offering templates, examples, and guides to help students craft effective graduate school application documents, with a focus on STEM fields.