Iddo Friedberg
Associate Professor
Ames, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolIddo Friedberg is an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics with 20 years of experience combining computational biology, structural bioinformatics, and metagenomics to predict gene and protein function from structural databases. He holds a Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has built a career spanning research scientist roles and faculty positions at institutions including UC San Diego, Miami University, and Iowa State University. Iddo is a long-time contributor to the Open Bioinformatics Foundation and Biopython, reflecting a sustained commitment to open-source tooling that bridges research and reproducible analysis. His work uniquely blends deep structural biology expertise with large-scale computational approaches to structural genomics and metagenomic data, and he is known for mentoring the next generation of computational biologists.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Bioinformatics, Ph.D., Bioinformatics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem19972002 Ph.D; 19951996 Masters' studies, Structural & Molecular Biochemistry at the Biological Chemistry dept, 19972002 Ph.D; 19951996 Masters' studies, Structural & Molecular Biochemistry at the Biological Chemistry dept at Institute of LifeSciences, The Hebrew UniversityB.Sc, Biology, B.Sc, Biology at The Hebrew University
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
123reputation
857reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (61)
python10
git-repository10
biopython10
sequence-alignment10
cvs10
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
protein-structure10
checkers10
tree-structure9
ncbi9
genome-annotation9
treeview9
genome8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
FriedbergLab/FriedbergLab.github.io
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:139 pushes in 2 years 1 month
idoerg/CAFA-sp-targets
Jul 2013 - Oct 2022
CAFA-sp-targets
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 9 years 5 months
targets
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