Tessa Pierce-Ward

Tessa Pierce-Ward

Assistant Research Scientist

Population Health & Reproduction


Education
2017, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego,
2009, MS, Stanford University,
2009, BS, Stanford University,
Research Focus
Genomic and computational analysis of microbial communities; bioinformatics; open source software development
Ten Recent Publications

2024
Irber L, Pierce-Ward NT^, Abuelanin M, Alexander H, Anant A, Brave K, Baumler C, Botvinnik O, Brooks P, Dsouza D, Gautier L, Hera MR, Houts HE, Johnson LK, Klotzl F, Koslicki D, Lim M, Lim R, Nelson B, Ogasawara I, Reiter T, Scott C, Sjodin A, Standage D, Swamidass SJ, Tiffany C, Vemuri P, Young E, Brown CT
sourmash v4: A multitool to quickly search, compare, and analyze genomic and metagenomic data sets

2024
Lumian J, Sumner DY, Grettenberger CL, Jungblut AD, Irber L, Pierce-Ward NT, Brown CT
Biogeographic distribution of five Antarctic cyanobacteria using large-scale k-mer searching with sourmash branchwater

2022
Pritchard L, Brown CT, Harrington B, Heath LS, Pierce-Ward NT, Vinatzer BA
Could a Focus on the "Why" of Taxonomy Help Taxonomy Better Respond to the Needs of Science and Society?

2022
Roach MJ, Pierce-Ward NT, Suchecki R, Mallawaarachchi V, Papudeshi B, Handley SA, Brown CT, Watson-Haigh NS, Edwards RA
Ten simple rules and a template for creating workflows-as-applications.

2021
Reiter T, Brooks PT, Irber L, Joslin SEK, Reid CM, Scott C, Brown CT, Pierce-Ward NT
Streamlining data-intensive biology with workflow systems.

2020
Love MI, Soneson C, Hickey PF, Johnson LK, Pierce NT, Shepherd L, Morgan M, Patro R
Tximeta: Reference sequence checksums for provenance identification in RNA-seq.

2019
Pierce NT, Irber L, Reiter T, Brooks P, Brown CT
Large-scale sequence comparisons with sourmash.