From Outreachy to cancer research
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An Outreachy internship produces a working crank CLI for Pagure and leads to a junior developer role at IRB Barcelona building Cancer Genome Interpreter v2, using Python, Docker and Singularity and importing open‑source workflows into a lab setting. The hiring loop includes a live coding task plus building a Docker image. The platform contains ~800 cancer genes, 5,600 validated mutations across 246 cancer types and successfully prioritizes likely driver mutations to generate clinically relevant treatment suggestions.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:51Learning Python
- 2:38Outreachy
- 5:17Crank
- 6:28Takeaways
- 7:47Local coding communities
- 9:23Codebar
- 11:57Networking
- 13:28Whiteboard interview
- 14:30Tech interview
- 15:06Bioinformatics
- 15:48Zero personal life
- 16:40Time
- 18:55Data
- 19:25Paths
- 19:55Rolling the dice
- 20:21Questions
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