Well, here we are.
I’ve been meaning to put together a proper personal site for a while now — something that goes beyond a list of links and actually gives you a sense of how I think and what I work on. This is that attempt.
I’m J-P Courneya. I’m a Lead Bioinformatics Analyst at the University of Maryland Baltimore’s Center for Vaccine Development. Day to day, that means I’m building and running multi-omics pipelines — genomics, proteomics, single-cell, spatial transcriptomics — on HPC infrastructure, and working closely with researchers to make sense of large, messy biological datasets. I also spend a lot of time thinking about reproducibility, workflow design, and what it actually means to do rigorous computational biology in an academic setting.
This site is going to be the place where I bring those threads together.
What to expect here:
- Notes on tools, workflows, and approaches I find interesting or useful
- Writeups on problems I’ve worked through (the kind that took longer than they should have and deserve documentation)
- Thoughts on the intersection of data science, biology, and research infrastructure
- Occasional tangents into things that don’t fit neatly into any of the above
The goal isn’t to publish polished essays. It’s to think out loud in a way that might be useful to someone else. If you’re a researcher trying to figure out a pipeline, a bioinformatician wrestling with the same infrastructure problems I’ve wrestled with, or just someone curious about how this kind of work actually gets done — I’m hoping there’s something here for you.
More soon.
— J-P