Anand Mayakonda
Bioinformatics Research Group Leader
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAnand Mayakonda is a Bioinformatics Research Group Leader at DKFZ with 11 years of experience bridging academic and industrial genomics research. He holds a summa cum laude PhD in Genome Sciences and has worked across institutions in Germany, Singapore, and India, specializing in cancer genomics and computational analysis. Anand is an active open-source contributor—notably enhancing maftools with functions for VAF plotting, tumor heterogeneity inference, and oncogenic pathway analyses—bringing practical tooling to the cancer genomics community. He combines hands-on R back-end development with leadership in translational bioinformatics, often focusing on reproducible pipelines and data visualization. A less obvious strength is his track record of refactoring and documentation improvements, indicating attention to long-term usability and adoption of his tools.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at I2ITBachelor's degree, Biotechnology, Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genome Sciences/Genomics, summa kum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genome Sciences/Genomics, summa kum laude at DKFZ German Cancer Research Center
Kannada, English, German
Github Skills (8)
data-visualizations10
bioinformatics10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
cancer-genomics10
r10
data-analysis10
ggplot9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PoisonAlien/mafTools
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Contributions summary:Anand appears to be contributing to the project by adding and modifying functions within the R code. Specifically, the commits show the implementation of new functions, such as `plotVaf`, `inferHetrogentiy`, and `proteinMap`, which suggests the development of core bioinformatics functionalities. The user also refactored some of the code.
PoisonAlien/TCGAmutations
Oct 2017 - Jul 2021
R data package for pre-compiled somatic mutations from TCGA cohorts (from Broad Firehose and TCGA MC3 Project)
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 9 months
r-packagertcgasomatic-mutationsrstats
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