Diego Riano-pachon
Assistant Professor at Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolDiego Riano-pachon is an Assistant Professor and computational biologist with over a decade of experience applying bioinformatics, genomics, and machine learning to questions in gene regulatory networks, genome annotation, and evolutionary biology. He has led research groups and developed integrative omics databases while working across academia and national research institutes in Europe and Latin America, with hands-on expertise in NGS (454 and Illumina) for reconstructing genomes and complex transcriptomes. His work spans practical applications—from molecular marker development for crop resistance to investigating biomass production and conversion in plants, algae, fungi, and bacteria. Trained as a Dr. rer. nat. in bioinformatics, he combines statistical rigor and systems-level thinking to predict non-coding RNA function and trace protein domain evolution. Colleagues value his ability to bridge computational tool development with experimental questions, and he brings an unusual blend of long-term database engineering experience and recent high-throughput sequencing practice.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Biólogo, Biología, Biólogo, Biología at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaDr. rer. nat., Bioinformatics, gene regulation, plant molecular biology, evolution, Dr. rer. nat., Bioinformatics, gene regulation, plant molecular biology, evolution at University of Potsdam
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (79)
nmf10
explore10
taxonomy9
kraken9
genomes9
phasing9
bioinformatics9
sequence9
classification9
biodiversity9
genomics8
genome-annotation8
sequencing8
biology8
molecule7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
labbces/cen0485
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 3 years
diriano/diriano.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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