Adhemar Neto
Researcher at Embrapa
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAdhemar Neto is a bioinformatics researcher and software engineer with nine years of experience bridging sequence analysis, databases and data integration, currently based in São Paulo and working at Embrapa. He holds a PhD from UFMG focused on integrating Schistosoma mansoni genomic data to discover therapeutic targets and has a strong track record in second-generation sequence assembly and annotation from multiple research roles at Fiocruz and international fellowships. Adhemar contributes to open source—most notably enhancing Biopython’s SearchIO, documentation and PostgreSQL test robustness—demonstrating attention to reproducibility and maintainability in bioinformatics tooling. He combines hands-on back-end development and DBA/web development roots with deep domain expertise, enabling practical end-to-end solutions for genomic databases like SchistoDB. Colleagues value his rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering that turns complex genomic data into usable, well-tested resources.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Universidade Vale do Rio Verde - UninCorPHD, Bioinformatics, PHD, Bioinformatics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
bioinformatics10
biopython10
python10
testing10
xml9
sequence-alignment8
postgresql7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
biopython/biopython
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 9 PRs, 29 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Adhemar primarily focused on enhancing the Biopython library's documentation and adding tests. Their work included adding docstrings to the `__init__` methods and improving existing ones, which increased code readability. They also refactored and updated test frameworks, specifically regarding database permissions for PostgreSQL tests, increasing the robustness of the testing process. Additionally, the user contributed to the `SearchIO` module with enhancements, handling duplicate hits, database cross-references and calculating aln_span for the InterProScan XML parser.
git-repositoryphylogeneticspythondnagenomics
lmb-embrapa/machado-docker
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 8 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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