Dilmurat Yusuf - Affiliated Researcher

Dilmurat Yusuf

Affiliated Researcher

Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Dilmurat Yusuf is a senior bioinformatician and affiliated researcher with over a decade of experience building computational pipelines and multi-omics analyses across neuroimmune, cardiovascular, and microbial systems. He co-created the widely used RCAS Bioconductor package and helped deliver AI-driven platforms like AxoWise and the Neuron 2025 study, demonstrating a rare blend of open-source impact and translational research. His work spans end-to-end workflow engineering—from Galaxy tool wrappers and Bioconda packaging to time-series ATAC/RNA integration and automated ENA submissions—enabling reproducible large-scale analyses. A hands-on mentor and collaborator, he routinely translates complex computational results for experimental teams and supervises student theses. Based in Freiburg, he is deepening expertise in machine learning and data engineering, applying those skills to enhance biological insight discovery. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of making community tools robust and automatable, evidenced by improvements to RiboTaper workflows and widely adopted data submission utilities.

10 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

B.Sc. in Pharmaceutics, B.Sc. in Pharmaceutics at Fudan University

Ph.D. in Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics, RNA biology, Ph.D. in Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics, RNA biology at Universität Wien | University of Vienna

M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, M.Sc. in Bioinformatics at Chalmers University of Technology

Github Skills (7)

rna-seq10

bioinformatics10

r10

galaxy9

bash8

cheminformatics7

tooling7

Programming languages (4)

ShellTeXHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

bgruening/galaxytools

Oct 2015 - Nov 2017

:microscope::books: Galaxy Tool wrappers

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:146 commits, 26 PRs, 72 comments in 2 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Dilmurat contributed to the `galaxytools` repository by adding a script folder and modifying the `CCDS_orf_finder.R` script and related shell scripts to facilitate ribosome profiling data analysis. The user's changes indicate a focus on improving the functionality and automation of the RiboTaper pipeline within the context of Galaxy tools. The modifications included updating script calls and ensuring the correct execution of R scripts.

cheminformaticsmicroscopegalaxyprojgalaxygalaxy-tool

BackofenLab/AxoWise

Jul 2018 - Feb 2025

Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 6 years 8 months

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