Ilya Flyamer
Postdoctoral Researcher at Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolIlya Flyamer is a postdoctoral researcher based in Basel with 12 years of experience at the intersection of 3D genomics, gene regulation, and chromatin biology. He combines deep molecular biology training from Lomonosov MSU and a PhD-era trajectory at the University of Edinburgh with robust computational skills applied to genomic visualization and analysis. His open-source contributions to projects like scikit-image, adjustText, and pyGenomeTracks show a knack for improving scientific tooling—ranging from image-processing docs to smoothing genome track visualizations. Ilya’s work emphasizes reproducible, publication-ready visual outputs and practical algorithmic refinements that improve interpretation of complex genomic data. He has moved fluidly between bench and code, bringing hands-on experimental insight to computational method development. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented problem solver who elevates both data clarity and software maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Biology, Biology at Moscow High School in the South-West №1543Specialist, biochemistry, molecular biology, Specialist, biochemistry, molecular biology at Московский Государственный Университет им. М.В. Ломоносова (МГУ) / Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), биологический факультет, до 2015
Russian, English, German
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Github Skills (25)
data-visualizations10
python10
image-processing10
matplotlib10
data-visualisation10
scikit-image10
plot10
computer-vision10
data-visualization10
documentation10
pandas9
seaborn9
numpy9
bioinformatics9
algorithm7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Phlya/adjustText
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
A small library for automatically adjustment of text position in matplotlib plots to minimize overlaps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 218 commits, 31 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ilya has made significant contributions to the `adjusttext` repository, focusing on improving the core functionality. The commits showcase the addition of new functions and the refactoring of existing ones, which enhances the library's capability to adjust text annotations in plots. The user has made major edits to the code base, demonstrating a deep understanding of the library's core functionality and related matplotlib concepts.
positionpythonadjustmentplotmatplotlib
deeptools/pyGenomeTracks
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
python module to plot beautiful and highly customizable genome browser tracks
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 46 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily contributed to the `pygenometracks` project by modifying the `BigWigTrack` and `BedGraphTrack` modules. Their work focused on improving the visualization of data, including implementing negative color options, interpolation for smoother zero crossings, and addressing display issues. The user also fixed integration issues, likely related to Travis CI, and made minor adjustments to the `LinksTrack.py`.
genomepythongenome-browserbrowserplot
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