Gerhard Schöfl - Head Of Bioinformatics

Gerhard Schöfl

Head Of Bioinformatics

Dresden, Saxony, Germany

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Gerhard Schöfl is Head of Bioinformatics at DKMS Life Science Lab in Dresden, bringing 11 years of experience in R-driven data science, statistics, and predictive modeling applied to HLA bioinformatics and NGS workflows. He leads algorithm development and specialised software implementation for high-resolution, sequence-based HLA genotyping, and champions adoption of long-read technologies (PacBio, Oxford Nanopore) to improve phasing and typing accuracy. With a strong academic foundation in population genetics and a history of generating fully phased HLA references through hybrid error correction, he combines rigorous statistical training with hands-on sequencing expertise. Gerhard also teaches applied statistics and has translated population-genetics research across diverse organisms into robust bioinformatic pipelines, reflecting a rare mix of domain depth and practical engineering.

11 years of coding experience

7 years of employment as a software developer

Mag. rer. nat., Zoology/Animal Biology, Mag. rer. nat., Zoology/Animal Biology at Universität Wien

Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology at University of Bergen (UiB)

Biology, General, Biology, General at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Dr. rer. nat., Population Genetics, Dr. rer. nat., Population Genetics at Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien

English, Norwegian, German

Github Skills (9)

r-package10

genbank10

hla10

nomenclature9

ncbi9

bioinformatics8

ftp6

databases2

search-engine2

Programming languages (2)

RParrot

Github contributions (5)

gschofl/hlatools

Nov 2015 - Jul 2021

Contributions:82 commits, 46 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months

gschofl/reutils

Jul 2014 - Oct 2020

Contributions:37 commits, 27 pushes, 12 comments in 6 years 3 months

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