#WhyIScience Q&A: A software engineer develops computational tools for psychiatric and brain research
Broad Institute
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
After earning a degree in Computer Science and working for multiple technology startups, Shakir first came to the Broad to work on a project studying human genetic variation called the 1000 Genomes Project, which launched in 2008. He was intrigued by the prospect of scaling computational tools to analyze ever-growing biological datasets.
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