Asaf Peer
Senior Computational Biologist
Jerusalem District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAsaf Peer is a Senior Computational Biologist with 11 years of experience building and maintaining microbiome and genomics analysis pipelines, currently driving sequencing-based analytics and ML at Mybiotics Pharma. He holds a PhD in Computational Biology from The Hebrew University and has blended academic NGS research on RNA structure with industry work on statistical genomics and algorithm development. Asaf is proficient in R and Python, a Nextflow/nf-core enthusiast who contributes automation improvements to high-profile bioinformatics packaging (bioconda), and applies rigorous statistical tests to understand fermentation and intervention effects. Beyond production pipelines, he enjoys tinkering with Arduino and maintains a strong interest in small RNA biology and microbial systems—bringing both experimental curiosity and production-grade engineering to bioinformatics challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology at The Hebrew University
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (12)
bioinformatics10
automation10
script10
conda10
automations10
bash10
package-management10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
dockers7
docker7
python5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Asaf's contributions primarily revolve around automating and streamlining the building and packaging processes within the bioconda-recipes repository. They've modified build scripts (`build.sh`), added new recipes (e.g., `bamkit`, `hydra-multi`), updated dependencies, and refactored existing recipes, specifically those for `lumpy-sv` and `breakdancer`. Their work focuses on ensuring software packages are built correctly and efficiently within the conda environment, as indicated by the changes to configuration files and build tools.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
TheJacksonLaboratory/mousegwas
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
An R package for easy execution of mouse GWAS
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
r-packagemouserstatsgwasexecution
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