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

VIGOR

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