Andreas Sjödin
Deputy Research Director at FOI
Greater Umeå Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Andreas Sjödin is a Deputy Research Director with 12 years of experience bridging microbial forensics, genomics, and bioinformatics from academia to applied research. Based in Umeå, he combines a PhD in plant molecular biology with hands-on expertise in next-generation sequencing, metagenomics, and machine learning to solve complex biological inference problems. He has led research efforts at FOI and contributed internationally, including a research stint at Harvard School of Public Health and teaching NGS at Umeå University. A pragmatic developer and DevOps engineer, Andreas is an active contributor to the widely used Bioconda ecosystem, maintaining conda recipes and smoothing builds for key bioinformatics tools. His background in large-scale transcriptomic databases and multivariate analysis gives him an uncommon fluency in distinguishing biological signal from noise in noisy, real-world datasets. He blends strategic leadership with practical software and package-management skills that keep research reproducible and deployable.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Cell and Molecular biology of Plants, PhD Cell and Molecular biology of Plants at Umeå University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (9)
bioinformatics10
conda10
bash10
package-management10
python9
cmake8
perl7
go6
rust4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Dec 2015 - Apr 2022
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:621 reviews, 1493 commits, 2545 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of conda recipes within the bioconda-recipes repository. Their work included adding and updating recipes for various bioinformatics tools like toulligqc, tombo, raxml, and others. The user also addressed build issues, fixed dependencies, and bumped versions of existing packages, which demonstrates expertise in package management and build processes. Their contributions likely involve the implementation of bioinformatics tools.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
druvus/CanSNPer
Feb 2016 - May 2020
A hierarchical genotype classifier of clonal pathogens
Contributions:7 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 3 months
clonalclassifierpathogensgenotypehierarchical
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