Husen Umer
Bioinformatics Staff Scientist
Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolHusen Umer is a Bioinformatics Staff Scientist with over a decade of experience combining software engineering, data science, and cancer genomics to build tools and workflows for NGS and multi-omics analyses. With a PhD in Bioinformatics and postdoctoral work in clinical bioinformatics, he has developed novel algorithms, databases, and end-to-end pipelines for proteogenomics, neoantigen discovery, and single-cell to long-read applications. He has led computational projects at Uppsala, Karolinska, and KAUST, blending hands-on software development (Python, PostgreSQL, Linux) with rigorous statistical modeling of noncoding mutations. Known for turning large, heterogeneous sequencing cohorts into reproducible workflows, he also teaches and maintains research infrastructure—bringing the pragmatism of a software engineer to cutting-edge cancer research. An entrepreneurially minded technologist, he pairs deep domain expertise with a track record of shipping production-ready bioinformatics tools.
10 years of coding experience
Postdoc, Clinical Bioinformatics, Postdoc, Clinical Bioinformatics at Karolinska InstitutetBachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at Salahaddin University-ErbilDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Uppsala University
Kurdish, English, Swedish, Arabic
Github Skills (76)
mass-spectrometry10
nextflow10
rna-seq10
sequencing10
shotgun10
bioinformatics10
singularity9
pipeline9
seq9
microbiome9
nf-core9
genomics9
illumina9
pathogen9
file-manipulation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
husensofteng/scripts
Mar 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
husensofteng/ProteoWorks
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
Workshops for Proteomics Data Analysis Tasks by Bioinformaticians at Lehtio Lab
Contributions:62 pushes in 3 years 1 month
data-analysisproteomics-databioinformaticsproteomicsproteomics-data-analysis
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