David Degnan

Data Scientist

David Degnan is a biological data scientist who develops bioinformatic and statistical pipelines for multi-omics data. He has experience with top-down and bottom-up proteomics analysis, genomics and transcriptomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, 3-D mass spectrometry image analysis, statistical machine learning, multi-omics integration, containerization with Docker, cloud computing, benchmark dose statistics, data visualization, natural language processing, large language models, and app/package development.

Since joining Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2019, Degnan has been an instructor at Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) Summer School and has been a featured speaker for the EMSL LEARN Webinar Series and the Data Science Bootcamp for Biologists. Degnan holds an MS in bioinformatics from the University of Oregon and a BS in cellular and molecular biology from George Fox University. He also teaches bioinformatics and biostatistics at the University of Oregon.