Reid Wagner

Application Developer

Email:

wagnerr@umn.edu

Office:

B18D Walter Library

Brief Bio:

After graduating with a dual-major in physics & mathematics and a brief role in a University of Minnesota cosmology laboratory, Reid began his software development career in a variety of fields. He first worked as a DevOps engineer for an order-to-cash enterprise system before pivoting to firmware and robotics, and then finally settling into his current position at MSI. Here he maintains the MSI Galaxy website, develops Galaxy wrappers for metaproteomics tools, and is a principal contributor to the CloudForest phylogenomics application.

Expertise:

DevOps & website administration

Galaxy bioinformatics platform & scientific computing environments

JavaScript visualization development

Python, C

Education:

BA, Physics & Mathematics, Kalamazoo College

Publications and Presentations:

Reid Wagner, Benjamin S. Toups, Zhifeng Deng, Kyle A. Gallivan, Jeremy M. Brown, and James C. Wilgenbusch. 2021. Investigating the Genomic Distribution of Phylogenetic Signal with CloudForest. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 34, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3437359.3465605