Marie Andken has been interning at the Institute for Systems Biology, working in the Moritz Lab under Dr. Eric Deutsch for a year. She is currently a freshman at the University of Washington and is majoring in Computer and Electrical Engineering.
At the Moritz Lab over the school year during her senior year in high school, Marie built the Human Proteome Project Pipeline. A Python pipeline that downloads the information from GENCODE and builds a table of all the current human protein coding genes. Information from other proteomic databases are also incorporated into the table. As part of this project she contributed to a paper describing the pipeline and recommending that certain proteins with a PE score of 5 be upgraded to a higher certainty of existence.
Over the Summer, with fellow Intern Clarissa Zhang, Marie has been working on RunAssessor, a tool used by PeptideAtlas to add lost metadata to mzML files that have been dropped in public mass spectrometry databases. Currently, she is working with Clarissa to write a paper on the use of RunAssessor.