Asis Hallab
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAsis Hallab is a bioinformatician and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience applying computational methods to comparative genomics and production web systems. Currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, he combines deep expertise in gene family analysis, selection detection, and cross-species expression comparison with hands-on skills in sequencing, assembly, and morphospace analysis. His earlier decade in industry delivered web applications and client-facing project leadership using Ruby on Rails, Java, PHP and mobile clients, and he even built an administrative knowledge/resource management tool for his department. Comfortable bridging research and product, he excels at turning complex biological questions into reproducible software and data workflows. Fluent in German and English, he seeks roles that leverage both scientific insight and software/project management experience. An uncommon strength is his track record of shipping production tools from both academic and commercial settings, enabling pragmatic, well-documented solutions for multidisciplinary teams.
14 years of coding experience
Diplom-Biologe, Biologie, allgemein, Sehr gut (1.0), Diplom-Biologe, Biologie, allgemein, Sehr gut (1.0) at Universität zu KölnDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatik, magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatik, magna cum laude at Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, University of Cologne and Bonn
German, English, Spanish, French, Latin
Github Skills (72)
ontology10
genomics9
bioinformatics9
vim-plugin8
graphql8
graphql-js8
go8
command-line-utility8
vscode8
vim7
backend7
javascript7
neo4j7
command-line-parser7
crud7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
usadellab/prot-scriber
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
Assigns short human readable descriptions to biological sequences or gene families using references. For this, prot-scriber consumes sequence similarity search results in tabular format (Blast or Diamond).
Contributions:24 PRs, 131 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 3 months
similarity-searchbioinformaticsprotein-function-predictiongene-familiesbiological-sequence-analysis
asishallab/dotfiles
Mar 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:53 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 11 months
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