Ignacio Ferrés
Research Assistant at Institut Pasteur de Montevideo
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolIgnacio Ferrés is a bioinformatics-focused research assistant and PhD student in Genetics at Institut Pasteur de Montevideo with nine years of experience in microbial comparative genomics and metagenomic bioprospection. He holds a BSc in Biology and an MSc in Bioinformatics from Universidad de la República and has led projects on Antarctic microbial enzymes and metabolic pathway reconstruction in Spirochaetes. Proficient in R and creator of bioinformatics software on GitHub, he combines hands-on coding with peer-reviewed scholarship and applied research in public health–relevant bacteria. Colleagues describe him as proactive and team-oriented, with broader interests in data visualization, economics, and science communication through photography and volunteering.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Universidad de la República
English, Spanish
Github Skills (137)
slurm10
dataflow10
genomes10
genomics10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
nextflow10
pipeline10
reproducible-research10
ggbreak10
aws10
bioinformatics10
pipeline-framework9
assembly9
docker9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
iferres/phylen
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:119 commits, 11 PRs, 87 pushes in 2 years
bioinformaticsphylogenydatabasecompute
iferres/pagoo
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
A comprehensive and intuitive encapsulated OO class system for analyzing bacterial pangenomes in R.
Contributions:462 commits, 86 PRs, 217 pushes in 3 years 8 months
analyzingcomprehensivebacterialintuitive
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