Gal Horesh
Senior Bioinformatician
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolGal Horesh is a Senior Bioinformatician with eight years of experience combining computer science rigor and genomics expertise to deliver production-grade data solutions. Trained at Cambridge (PhD in Computational Biology) and Imperial (MSc, distinction), he built and curated an 18,000-genome E. coli collection during his doctoral work and developed scalable Python/R pipelines that account for dataset bias and horizontal gene transfer. At Microbiotica he leads end-to-end analyses, authors in-house packages with unit tests and git workflows, and represents bioinformatics in cross-functional programs translating complex results into actionable decisions. Comfortable across Python, R, Bash and C#, he pairs strong engineering discipline with a passion for clear data visualization and reproducible research. Based in Lisbon, he brings a rare blend of large-scale microbial genomics experience and hands-on software development to biomedical data science.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, summa cum laude, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, summa cum laude at Tel Aviv UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at University of CambridgeMaster’s Degree, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Distinction, Master’s Degree, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Distinction at Imperial College London
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (36)
igraph9
genomics8
figure8
bioinformatics8
graph-algorithms7
python7
na6
graph-theory6
operating-system6
apply6
ggtree6
ggplot6
graph-visualization6
glob6
sequencing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ghoresh11/sling
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
a tool to search for linked gene arrays in bacterial datasets
Contributions:6 releases, 16 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 11 months
genomicsarraysbioinformaticsgenebacterial
ghoresh11/ecoli_genome_collection
Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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