Christian Atallah
Bioinformatician MGnify
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Atallah is a bioinformatician with 8 years’ experience building production-grade analysis pipelines and algorithms, currently developing and maintaining MGnify’s microbial analysis workflows at EMBL-EBI. He specialises in Python and Nextflow, with daily practice in HPC, git, and large-scale reference database curation for amplicon and metagenomic data. Previously he delivered bioinformatics services and ML-enabled data engineering for clinical and genomics projects at Newcastle University, spanning RNA‑Seq, WES, variant calling and ML model development. Christian combines research training (PhD in Bioinformatics) with hands-on pipeline standardisation and cross‑consortium collaboration on EU marine metagenomics initiatives, bringing both reproducibility-focused engineering and domain expertise to sequencing-driven studies.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Newcastle UniversityHigh School, High School at International School of Arts and SciencesBachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics, Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics at Lebanese American University
French, English, Arabic
Github Skills (44)
synthetic-biology10
package-management10
conda10
synthetic10
bioinformatics10
bioconda10
web-application9
biology9
computational-biology9
rdf9
genome-analysis7
genome7
genomics7
linting6
predictor6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
EBI-Metagenomics/mgnify-pipelines-toolkit
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:21 releases, 39 reviews, 61 PRs in 1 year 4 months
intbio-ncl/seq-mdp
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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