Roland Alexander Richter is a Bioinformatics Programmer and Analyst 4 in the Zarrinpar Laboratory at UC San Diego Health. Prior to joining UC San Diego, he worked for the J. Craig Venter Institute, the Center for Computational Genomics at Pennsylvania State University, and Intuit. He holds an MA in Biology (Neuroscience) from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Arizona.
Areas of Expertise
Bioinformatics
Pipeline development
Microbial metagenomics and transcriptomics
Short-read de-novo and mapping assembly
Phylogenetic and population analysis of metagenomic samples
Functional annotation system design
Research programming for analysis
Translation between biologists’ and programmers’ vocabulary
Computer and Technology
Cloud-computing – Amazon and work-alike clouds; Dev-ops for system/application development
Process analysis, prototyping, and design of production systems
Maintenance programming and troubleshooting
Programming in Perl, Python, Bourne shell, Java, C
Grid/Cluster parallel programming, IPC
Database programming and administration (PostgreSQL, mySQL, SQLite, Sybase/MS-SQL Server, dBase)
Web Applications programming
HTML, CSS, XML, mod_perl, JavaScript
RDF and OWL Semantic Web technologies and ontology design
Solaris (UNIX) and Linux system administration
Apache Web Server administration, including mod_perl administration
Workflow and pipeline development
Troubleshooting from application to component level (MacOS and OS X, Solaris and Linux, Windows)
