Albert Vilella
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlbert Vilella is a Senior Consultant Bioinformatics Scientist with 15 years of experience building and operationalizing DNA/NGS/omics analysis for biotech R&D and TechDev, currently consulting from Cambridge, UK. He has led bioinformatics teams and production pipelines at startups and scale-ups—most notably creating the Precision Bioinformatics unit at Cambridge Epigenetix—and advises Seed to Series A/B companies on product, lab and data strategy. Technically hands-on, he contributed backend parsing and reporting enhancements to the widely used MultiQC project, improving integration of tools like qualimap, samtools and macs2 for large-scale NGS reporting. His background blends deep research (PhD in Genome Sciences) and industry work across Illumina and EMBL-EBI, giving him a rare perspective on both algorithm development and production-grade sequencing systems. He is experienced across short- and long-read platforms (Illumina/MGI/Nanopore/PacBio) and in practical topics from NIPT to sequencing cost/throughput and LIMS. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, high-impact solutions that bridge novel genomics methods and scalable bioinformatics delivery.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
reporting-services10
bioinformatics10
python10
data-analysis10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
MultiQC/MultiQC
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
Aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 92 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the `multiqc` project by modifying existing modules and adding new functionality for data analysis and reporting. Their work involved parsing and integrating data from bioinformatics tools, specifically focusing on `qualimap` and `samtools`. This included modifying existing code to accommodate new data formats and adding new data sources and features, enhancing the overall capabilities of the reporting tool. They also worked on the `macs2` module, likely for parsing data from peak callers.
bioinformaticsanalysispypibiocondamultiqc
avilella/utils
Jan 2017 - Nov 2025
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 10 months
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