Boris Steipe
Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBoris Steipe is a Professor Emeritus and interdisciplinary scientist with decades of academic leadership in biochemistry, structural biology and bioinformatics, having founded and directed the University of Toronto’s Specialist Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from 2004–2019. Trained as an MD and habilitated in biochemistry at LMU Munich, he held research positions at the Max Planck Institute and led a group at the Genzentrum before a long tenure as a tenured associate professor in Toronto. His work bridges protein chemistry, systems biology and computational methods, and in recent years he has pushed conversations at the intersection of science, art and the humanities. Uncommonly for a life scientist, he has also engaged with philosophical and aesthetic dimensions of research and is now active in shaping academic responses to Generative AI.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation (Biochemistry), Habilitation (Biochemistry) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Github Skills (19)
exploratory10
bioinformatics9
structural-variation7
unique-identifier7
computational-biology7
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r-package5
identity4
spellchecker4
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spelling4
systems-biology4
discovery3
biology3
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hyginn/ABC-units
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
A Bioinformatics Course: R modules for learning units
Contributions:265 commits, 168 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
bioinformatics
hyginn/BCB420.2019.ESA
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
BCB420 @ UofT: Exploratory Systems Analysis tools projects
Contributions:25 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
uoftanalysis-toolsexploratory
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