Anthony Fullam
Bioinfomatics Software Engineer
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAnthony Fullam is a bioinformatics software engineer with a decade of experience applying computational skills to cancer genomics and molecular biology at leading European institutes like EMBL, DKFZ and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. He combines a PhD in Molecular Biology with hands-on wet-lab training from earlier research roles, enabling him to bridge experimental design and scalable bioinformatics tooling. At EMBL he focuses on production-grade bioinformatics software built from deep domain knowledge honed on cancer genome projects and interferon-signalling research. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns complex biological questions into reproducible pipelines and maintainable code. Based in Heidelberg, he brings both academic rigor and practical engineering discipline to collaborative research software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Molecular Medicine, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Molecular Medicine at Trinity College DublinLeaving Cert, Leaving Cert at St. Kevins Community CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology at Maynooth University
English, German, French, Irish, python, r
Github Skills (50)
package-management10
conda10
nextflow10
genomes10
bioinformatics10
singularity9
reproducible-science9
dataflow9
slurm9
reproducible-research9
groovy9
pipeline9
aws9
nf-core9
bioconda9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fullama/bioconda-recipes
Oct 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
grp-bork/gunc
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
Python package for detection of chimerism and contamination in prokaryotic genomes.
Contributions:5 releases, 161 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 1 month
genomespythoncontaminationbioinformaticsprokaryotic-genomes
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