Felipe Lira
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Angers, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolFelipe Lira is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with nine years of experience translating multi-omics data into actionable strategies for probiotics, starter cultures, and health-related ingredients. He has led the design and deployment of integrative NGS pipelines and regulatory-compliant strain safety workflows across multinational food and biotech companies, including IFF, DuPont, and HM.CLAUSE. Combining a PhD in bioinformatics with hands-on programming (Python, R, Bash, Perl) and project management, he excels at making complex analyses accessible to non-bioinformaticians and aligning teams across science and business. Felipe’s background spans comparative genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, and antimicrobial-resistance research, with a track record of harmonizing internal procedures with EFSA standards. A sociable collaborator and mentor, he builds cross-cultural teams and promotes tool sharing to accelerate daily lab-to-insight workflows. He is based in Angers, France, and uniquely blends field biodiversity database management experience from the Amazon with advanced computational biology.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Honors - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Honors - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Universidad Autónoma de MadridEspecialist, Bioinformatic, Especialist, Bioinformatic at FUCAPIMaster's degree, Biologia Urbana, Master's degree, Biologia Urbana at Centro Universitário Nilton LinsGraduate, Bachelor of Biological Science, Graduate, Bachelor of Biological Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
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Github Skills (28)
genome-annotation10
genome9
pathogen9
genomics8
bioinformatics8
genes7
biology7
infectious-diseases7
science6
rapid6
genome-analysis6
sequencing6
zap6
next-generation-sequencing5
mass4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
felipelira/post-processing-antismash
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
felipelira/PrediPath
Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
PrediPath
Contributions:2 PRs, 191 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
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