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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.
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Research priorities
Software Development Lifecycle
Development of analysis tools and pipelines
Cloud technologies
Database development
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Publications
Nucleic acids research. 2025-11-18;
BV-BRC: a unified bacterial and viral bioinformatics resource with expanded functionality and AI integration
Shukla M, Wattam AR, Aleman A, Bhattacharya R, Bowers N, Brettin T, Capria A, Chia N, Cucinell C, Davis JJ, Dempsey DM, Dickerman A, Dietrich EM, Gokdemir O, Hendrickson RC, Kenyon RW, Klahn B, Kuscuoglu M, Lefkowitz EJ, Ma H, Machi D, Macken C, Mann CM, Mao C, Nguyen M, Olsen GJ, Olson RD, Overbeek R, Owens SM, Parrello B, Poretsky R, Pusch GD, Ramanathan A, Sheriff JT, Singh I, Stewart L, VanOeffelen M, Vonstein V, Warren AS, Wilke A, Zmasek CM, Zuniga A, Stevens RL
PMID: 41251138
Nucleic acids research. 2023-01-06; 51.D1: D678-D689.
Introducing the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC): a resource combining PATRIC, IRD and ViPR
Olson RD, Assaf R, Brettin T, Conrad N, Cucinell C, Davis JJ, Dempsey DM, Dickerman A, Dietrich EM, Kenyon RW, Kuscuoglu M, Lefkowitz EJ, Lu J, Machi D, Macken C, Mao C, Niewiadomska A, Nguyen M, Olsen GJ, Overbeek JC, Parrello B, Parrello V, Porter JS, Pusch GD, Shukla M, Singh I, Stewart L, Tan G, Thomas C, VanOeffelen M, Vonstein V, Wallace ZS, Warren AS, Wattam AR, Xia F, Yoo H, Zhang Y, Zmasek CM, Scheuermann RH, Stevens RL
PMID: 36350631
BMC bioinformatics. 2019-01-07; 20.1: 8.
OMeta: an ontology-based, data-driven metadata tracking system
Singh I, Kuscuoglu M, Harkins DM, Sutton G, Fouts DE, Nelson KE
PMID: 30612540