Andris Jankevics
Research Technologist at University of Liverpool
Utrecht Area Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAndris Jankevics is a research technologist and bioinformatician with over a decade of experience developing LC‑MS data processing algorithms for metabolomics, holding a PhD from the University of Groningen. He has progressed through roles at leading UK and Dutch institutions—Utrecht, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham—bridging hands‑on algorithm development, large‑scale data handling and experimental workflows. Andris contributes to open‑source tooling (notably enhancing Galaxy tool wrappers for metabolite annotation) to improve usability and richer outputs for downstream analysis. With a background in chemistry, mathematics and statistics, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with practical software engineering to scale metabolomics pipelines. Less obvious: he routinely reshapes output formats and test data to make tools more reproducible and integrable across platforms.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Rīgas 100. vidusskolaMaster, Mathematics and statistics, Master, Mathematics and statistics at Latvijas UniversitateDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at University of Groningen
Github Skills (14)
smile10
tooling10
smil10
galaxy10
wrapper10
python10
cheminformatics10
fileio9
file-access9
file-processing9
argparse9
file-handling9
numpy8
testing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bgruening/galaxytools
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
:microscope::books: Galaxy Tool wrappers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 9 days
Contributions summary:Andris primarily contributed to the `sygma_metabolites.py` tool, focusing on enhancing its functionality and output format. They added features for detailed SyGMa output, including molecular formulas and pathway information. Furthermore, they modified the output structure, changing the field separator and column order, and incorporated test data to support the new output format. These changes demonstrate an effort to improve the tool's usability and the richness of its results.
cheminformaticsmicroscopegalaxyprojgalaxygalaxy-tool
andzajan/mzmatch.R
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years
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