Undergraduate Engineering Research Assistant
Current• Implement and execute comprehensive data integrity checks for datasets imported from the Genomic Data Commons (GDC) API to the UCSC Xena browser.• Utilize the GDC API endpoints to retrieve genomic and clinical data directly from the GDC.• Create Python scripts to compare the data obtained from the GDC API with the existing data in the UCSC Xena browser.• Leverage pandas for data manipulation and transformation to preprocess the data obtained from the GDC API into a suitable format for comparison.