Anne Niknejad
Head Of Biocuration
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAnne Niknejad is Head of Biocuration with over 11 years’ experience specializing in manual literature curation and annotation of transcriptomic expression data across multiple animal species, including bulk and single-cell RNA-seq. Based in Geneva, she leads biocuration at Bgee and contributes to evolutionary and developmental biology projects, driving species-specific developmental stage ontologies and anatomical homology annotations used in resources like Uberon. Her background spans database setup, clinical data harmonization, and regulatory and metabolic network curation from roles at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and GeneBio, bridging wet-lab literature and computational modeling teams. Known for meticulous, ontology-driven curation, she combines deep biological expertise with practical experience shipping curated datasets and ontologies that underpin cross-species expression comparisons.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
master, Biology, master, Biology at University of Geneva
Github Skills (46)
biology10
genome10
ontologies10
concert10
ontology10
semantics10
geneontology10
transcriptomics10
anatomy10
bioinformatics10
systems-biology10
owl10
genomics10
computational-biology10
monarchinitiative10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ANiknejad/developmental-stage-ontologies
Feb 2020 - Sep 2024
Source files for various species-specific stage ontologies
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
owlgeneontologysemanticsbioinformaticsobofoundry
BgeeDB/anatomical-similarity-annotations
May 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 6 years 4 months
hostingrelationssimilarity
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