Dan Kortschak

Dan Kortschak

Software Engineer

Biography

Dan is actually doing science.

Interests
  • Software engineering
  • Graphical analysis
  • Data visualisation
Education
  • PhD in Genetics, 1998

    The University of Adelaide

  • GDip Education, 2006

    The University of Adelaide

  • BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry, 1993

    The University of Adelaide

Projects

Projects I am involved in or own.

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Ugg Boot

Ugg Boot

Ugg boot provides a simple way to update Go executables and list available versions using module version information embedded in the executable.

rgo

rgo

rgo is an R/Go integration tool.

mbg

mbg

mbg is an mbox forensics tool written for fun.

AusOcean

AusOcean

AusOcean is an environmental not-for-profit with a mission to help our oceans through the use of technology.

typo

The typogenetics game from Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.

arrgh

arrgh

arrgh is a Go interface to the OpenCPU R server system.

bíogo

bíogo

bíogo is a collection of packages for bioinformatics written in the Go programming language.

ev3go

ev3go

ev3go is a Go interface to LEGO® Mindstorms-compatible robotics platform built on the ev3dev.org Linux distribution.

Gonum

Gonum

Gonum is a collection of scientific software packages written for the Go programming language.

utter

utter implements a deep pretty printer for Go data structures.

zalgo

Invoke the hive mind.

Recent Publications

Teaching

I have written and taught a variety of courses in bioinformatics and software engineering practice for scientists, and coordinated the Master of Bioinformatics programme at the University of Adelaide from 2018 to 2020.

A half day course in basic git use is available here.

Other interests

Dan has other interests outside science and software development. He will share these things face to face.