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. Elizabeth 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
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.
Prior Work Projects (Vallender Lab)
- OrthoEvolution is an easy to use and comprehensive python package which aids in the analysis and visualization of orthologous genes.
- htseq-count-cluster is a CLI for running multiple qsub jobs with HTSeq's htseq-count script on a SGE/SGI cluster.
- MicrobiomeR is an R package for microbiome analysis that incorporates phyloseq, metacoder, taxa, and microbiome in order to standardize and simplify common microbiome workflows.
Personal Projects
- beRi is an R environment, R installation, and R package management system for the R programming language.
- flask-demo is a demo of a website built with the Flask framework that includes a dummy login page.
- labrat is a basic science lab framework aimed at reproducibility and lab management.