Sean Davis

Projects

27 open projects — software, data infrastructure, and hosted tools. 6 of them run on cancerdatasci.org, the operational home for the data-infrastructure work.

Selected work

The resources the rest of the work hangs off.

GEOquery

Creator · 314,396 downloads in 2025 · Bioconductor

The bridge between the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus and Bioconductor — a foundational R package I've maintained for years, used across the genomics community. Docs Paper

OmicIDX

Creator · cancerdatasci.org · open Parquet & API

A continuously refreshed index of the world's public sequencing metadata — SRA, GEO, and BioProject — served as open columnar snapshots and a query API. Docs

CFDE Atlas

Creator · cancerdatasci.org · NIH Common Fund

A knowledge base and conversational agent over the NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem — ask across programs, grants, and datasets in plain language. Open

curatedMetagenomicData

Contributor · 13,626 downloads in 2025 · Bioconductor · uniformly processed

Uniformly processed human microbiome data with curated, standardized metadata — a widely used resource in the Bioconductor ecosystem. Bioconductor Paper

Orchestra

Creator · orchestraplatform.org · training platform

Hosted, reproducible training environments for hands-on bioinformatics education — one-click workspaces the community can teach and learn in. Open

awesome-single-cell

Creator · 3,789 stars · GitHub

The field's reference list of software and data resources for single-cell analysis — one of the most-starred curated resources in computational biology. GitHub

Apps

Hosted tools you can open and use right now.

PubMed Grader

Creator · 2 stars · cancerdatasci.org

Append NIH iCite metrics to a set of PubMed IDs. Open

FDA Approvals

Creator · 2 stars · cancerdatasci.org

Robustly check whether a drug is FDA approved. Open

Data store

Creator · cancerdatasci.org

Public datasets and derived files, served from R2. Open

AI & agentic tooling

Agentic tooling for research writing, coding, and ontologies.

quartobot

Creator · 5 stars · GitHub

Manuscript-as-software: the manubot pattern, ergonomically, on Quarto. Docs

scriptorium

Creator · 3 stars · GitHub

Coordinated AI capabilities for manuscripts, grants, and review. Docs

ols-mcp-server

Creator · 26 stars · GitHub

An MCP server for the EBI Ontology Lookup Service. GitHub

agentic-coding-intro

Creator · 46 stars · GitHub

A brief introduction to agentic coding principles and practice. GitHub

agentic-writing-patterns

Creator · 2 stars · GitHub

Design patterns of agentic AI in scholarly writing. GitHub

lifeos-template

Creator · 24 stars · GitHub

An opinionated, agentic life-OS for Claude Code. GitHub

Bioconductor & data tools

Packages, pipelines, and curated data resources.

BiocPkgTools

Creator · 9,100 downloads in 2025 · Bioconductor

Build reports, package metadata, and download stats for Bioconductor. Docs Paper

GenomicDataCommons

Maintainer · 119,726 downloads in 2025 · Bioconductor

Query and download data and metadata from the NCI Genomic Data Commons in R. Docs Paper

GenomicSuperSignature

Contributor · 4,076 downloads in 2025 · Bioconductor

Interpret RNA-seq experiments by comparing them to models built from public data. Bioconductor Paper

SRAdb

Contributor · 10,463 downloads in 2025 · Bioconductor

Query NCBI Sequence Read Archive metadata from R through a SQLite database. Bioconductor Paper

GEOmetadb

Contributor · 12,696 downloads in 2025 · Bioconductor

Query NCBI GEO sample metadata from R through a SQLite database. Bioconductor Paper

methylumi

Creator · 68,510 downloads in 2025 · Bioconductor

Data structures and tools for Illumina methylation arrays in R. Bioconductor

ACME

Creator · 8,209 downloads in 2025 · Bioconductor

Enrichment calling for tiling microarrays such as ChIP-chip and DNase-chip. Bioconductor Paper

awesome-cancer-variant-resources

Creator · 335 stars · GitHub

A community list of cancer clinical knowledge bases and databases. GitHub

nextflow_telemetry

Creator · 5 stars · GitHub

Observability and web callbacks for Nextflow workflows. GitHub

state-cancer-profile-scraper

Creator · 5 stars · GitHub

Bulk access to NCI State Cancer Profiles data. GitHub Paper

metacurator

Creator · GitHub

Spec-first, ontology-grounded reproduction of sample-level metadata. GitHub

biomedical-agent-kg

Creator · 9 stars · cancerdatasci.org

A knowledge graph of biomedical LLM agent systems. Open

The full source for most of this lives on GitHub — including work not listed here.

github.com/seandavi

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