Azat Badretdin
Staff Scientist at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Montgomery Village, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAzat Badretdin is a Staff Scientist at NCBI with over two decades of experience bridging theoretical molecular biophysics and practical genome annotation, and eight years in his current focused role annotating prokaryotic genomes. He combines deep expertise in computational structural biology, homology modeling, protein structure prediction, and sequence analysis with a track record of developing annotation algorithms used across NCBI/NLM/NIH. His background includes industry and academic stints—postdoc in a structural biology lab and senior/principal scientist roles at Accelrys, Ariadne, and MSC—giving him rare breadth from molecular simulation to large-scale genome pipelines. Known for translating biophysical theory into robust computational tools, he pragmatically balances algorithmic rigor with production-ready annotation systems. Based in Montgomery Village, MD, he continues contributing to public genomic resources and method development even during periods of federal furlough.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, molecular biophysics, MS, molecular biophysics at Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyPh.D., biophysics, Ph.D., biophysics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (56)
json-schema10
ncbi10
genomes10
genome-annotation10
genes9
sequence-alignment9
common-workflow-language9
bioinformatics9
proteins9
bacteria9
genomics9
dna-sequences8
science8
microbial-genomics8
perl-script8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ncbi/pgap
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
Contributions:20 releases, 500 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 3 months
genome-annotationncbi
ncbi-gpipe/pgap
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
(Obsolete) NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline. New site:
Contributions:1 release, 145 commits, 107 pushes in 4 months
genome-annotationncbi
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