Aroon Chande

Bioinformatics Scientist

Seattle Genetics

Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory

Biography

I’m a Bioinformatics Scientist at Seattle Genetics and Scientific Advisor at the Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory. At Seattle Genetics, I develop software and pipelines to enable data-driven development of next-generation cancer therapuetics. At the Applied Bioinformatics Lab (ABiL), I develop bioinformatics methods for public health pathogen surveillance, metagenomics and industry research.

Interests

Bioinformatics
Human Genetics
Cancer Genomics
Clinical Genomics
Infectious Diseases
Public Health Genetics

Education

PhD Bioinformatics, 2020

Georgia Institute of Technology
MSc Bioinformatics, 2016

Georgia Institute of Technology
BSc Microbiology and BSc Biology, 2015

University of Iowa

Publications

More Publications

Chande, A.T., Lee, S., Harris, M., Nguyen, Q., Beckett, S.J., Hilley, T., Andris, C., Weitz, J.S. (2020). Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessment. Nat Hum Behav.

PDF Code Project

Weitz, J.S., Harris, M., Chande, A.T., Rishishwar, L., Jordan, I.K. (2020). Online COVID-19 Dashboard Calculates How Risky Reopenings and Gatherings Can Be. Sci Am.

Project Source Document

Chande, A.T., Rishishwar, L., Conley, A.B., Valderrama-Aguirre, A., Medina-Rivas, M.A., Jordan, I.K. (2020). Ancestry effects on type 2 diabetes genetic risk inference in Hispanic/Latino populations.. BMC Med Genet.

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Chande, A.T., Rishishwar, L., Ban, D., Nagar, S.D., Conley, A.B., Rowell, J., Valderrama-Aguirre, A., Medina-Rivas, M.A., Jordan, I.K. (2020). Ancestry effects on type 2 diabetes genetic risk inference in Hispanic/Latino populations.. GBE.

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Crisan, C.V., Chande, A.T., Williams, K., Raghuram, V., Rishishwar, L., Steinbach, G., Watve, S.S., Yunker, P., Jordan, I.K., Hammer, B.K. (2019). Analysis of Vibrio cholerae genomes identifies new type VI secretion system gene clusters. Genome Bio.

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Projects

COVID-19 Risk Assessment

Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessmentfic

GADGET

Global Distribtion of Genetic Traits - is a visual platform for exploring the genetic basis of human phenotypic diversity

ChocoGEN

Genetic ancestry and health in the Colombian Pacific

Vibriocholera.com

Prediction of Type VI Secretion Systems in Vibrio cholerae

rampdb

A central repository for: (1) Exploring known information regarding RAMPs, GPCRs and associated ligands; (2) Predicting potential RAMP interactions with your sequence or ligand; (3) Visualizing currently known interactions between RAMPs, GPCRs and ligands