🚀 About Me – My Journey Through Bioinformatics Link to heading
Hi, I’m Badran Elshenawy, a bioinformatician passionate about unraveling the complexity of biological systems through data, computation, and automation.
📖 My Journey Into Bioinformatics Link to heading
It all started with a fascination for how biological systems adapt and evolve. During my DPhil at Oxford, I dived deep into hypoxic heterogeneity in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) 🧫, exploring its molecular landscape using bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing.
But my curiosity didn’t stop there. I became captivated by the power of computation in biology—how high-performance computing, automation, and command-line tools could transform data into discovery.
Now, as a postdoc, my focus has shifted to virology, where I’m studying chronic HBV infection and its impact on the liver using spatial transcriptomics and advanced imaging. Working alongside some of the UK’s leading experts, I’ve come to appreciate not just the biological questions, but the computational challenges that come with them.
🛠 My Core Expertise Link to heading
Over time, I’ve built a workflow centered on efficiency, scalability, and reproducibility in bioinformatics. My work revolves around:
- 💻 High-Performance Computing & Command-Line Automation – Optimizing pipelines for large-scale bioinformatics analyses.
- 🧬 Transcriptomic Analysis – scRNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and bulk RNA-seq.
- 🛠 Git & Reproducibility – Making computational biology more transparent and replicable.
- 📊 Data Science in R – Seurat, ggplot2, and Bioconductor for transcriptomic insights.
📝 Where I Write & Share Link to heading
I believe that knowledge should be shared, and I use my personal website and LinkedIn to discuss:
- Bioinformatics workflows & best practices
- Command-line tools for efficiency
- Automation & HPC for scaling analyses
- Philosophies on productivity & deep work
If you’re interested in bioinformatics, computational biology, or the intersection of automation and science, let’s connect.
🔥 Always exploring new tools, ideas, and efficiency hacks!