Dr. Wesley Goar graduated from the Genetics Computational Track in 2019 under the direction of Dr. Val Sheffield and Todd Scheetz. Following his PhD, he worked as a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist and the Manager of Bioinformatics at Immortagen LLC where he developed NGS pipelines for exome sequencing and targeted cancer panels and designed analysis protocols for variant calling and classification. Additionally, he created clinical algorithms, refined personalized cancer diagnostic reports, supervised database management, and oversaw commercial relationships and inventory. In March of ‘22 he left Immortagen and joined the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine (IGM) at Nationwide Children’s Hospital as a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist (Wagner Lab). Dr. Goar manages the development of the Variation Categorizer interface, a tool designed to automate and streamline somatic variant analysis using community guidelines.