Alejandro Rial
Scientist And Software Developer at Acellera
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
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Top SchoolAlejandro Rial is a scientist and software developer with 10 years of experience specializing in Python-driven bioinformatics for proteins and small molecules. Based in A Coruña, Spain, he builds and containerizes reproducible analysis pipelines and tools—work that led to top performance in multiple subchallenges of the D3R Grand Challenge 4. At Acellera he develops and validates software like SkeleDock and LigVoxel, maintains web properties, and packages workflows as Singularity/Galaxy tools for wider reuse. Earlier roles include building a GPCR molecular simulation database and search engine (gpcrmd.org) using Django, PostgreSQL and Haystack, integrating libraries such as MDtraj and BioPython. He combines rigorous academic training in bioinformatics with pragmatic engineering practices, and is known for a pragmatic dislike of bugs and a fondness for bad jokes.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree in Biology, 8.0, Bachelor's Degree in Biology, 8.0 at Universidad Santiago de CompostelaMaster of Science (MSc) in Bioinformatics for Health Science, Bioinformatics, 8.01, Master of Science (MSc) in Bioinformatics for Health Science, Bioinformatics, 8.01 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
english (b2 level), Galician, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
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Github Skills (21)
molecule10
docking10
proteins10
molecular-simulation9
drug-discovery9
discovery9
sphinx8
documentation-generator8
lammps8
sphinx-extension8
markdown8
restructuredtext8
manipulation7
machine-learning7
python7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alejandrovr/moleculekit
Apr 2019 - Feb 2022
MoleculeKit: Your favorite molecule manipulation kit
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
manipulationmoleculefavorite
Acellera/software.acellera.com
Dec 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:44 pushes, 2 branches, 21 comments in 4 years 1 month
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