Mehmet Kuscuoglu 

Lead Software Engineer

Mehmet Kuscuoglu is a lead software engineer working in the Informatics group. He joined J. Craig Venter Institute in 2015 at the Rockville Campus and relocated to its headquarters in La Jolla. Since joining the JCVI, he has been contributed to multiple projects by developing and maintaining applications and pipelines as well as data management. He received his dual-diploma B.S. degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkiye.

Research priorities

Software Development Lifecycle
Development of analysis tools and pipelines
Cloud technologies
Database development

Publications

Nucleic acids research. 2023-01-06; 51.D1: D678-D689.
Introducing the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC): a resource combining PATRIC, IRD and ViPR
Olson RD, Assaf R, Brettin T, Conrad N, Cucinell C, Davis JJ, Dempsey DM, Dickerman A, Dietrich EM, Kenyon RW, Kuscuoglu M, Lefkowitz EJ, Lu J, Machi D, Macken C, Mao C, Niewiadomska A, Nguyen M, Olsen GJ, Overbeek JC, Parrello B, Parrello V, Porter JS, Pusch GD, Shukla M, Singh I, Stewart L, Tan G, Thomas C, VanOeffelen M, Vonstein V, Wallace ZS, Warren AS, Wattam AR, Xia F, Yoo H, Zhang Y, Zmasek CM, Scheuermann RH, Stevens RL
PMID: 36350631
BMC bioinformatics. 2019-01-07; 20.1: 8.
OMeta: an ontology-based, data-driven metadata tracking system
Singh I, Kuscuoglu M, Harkins DM, Sutton G, Fouts DE, Nelson KE
PMID: 30612540

Research priorities

Software Development Lifecycle
Development of analysis tools and pipelines
Cloud technologies
Database development

VIGOR

Homology-based viral gene finder, predicting both proteins and mature peptides.