Jan Wijnands
Bioinformatician
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Wijnands is a bioinformatician with 11 years of experience specializing in RNA-seq and single-cell genomics, now working at ProQR Therapeutics in Leiden. He builds reproducible Nextflow pipelines and manages data infrastructure (HPC, AWS S3/Glacier) for large-scale transcriptomics projects, including IMI PERSIST-SEQ WP7. Jan combines hands-on analysis of CEL-seq2 and 10x Genomics datasets with practical infrastructure administration and Dotmatics experience, enabling end-to-end workflows from raw reads to interpretable results. His background in evolutionary biology and multiple bioinformatics internships gives him a strong foundation in comparative genomics and assembly/phylogeny work that informs robust analytical design. Colleagues value his pragmatic blend of data management, pipeline engineering, and deep domain knowledge in single-cell technologies.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bioinformatics, 7.4, Bachelor of Science, Bioinformatics, 7.4 at Hogeschool LeidenMaster of Science, Evolutionary Biology, 7.0, Master of Science, Evolutionary Biology, 7.0 at Universiteit Leiden
Dutch, German, English
Github Skills (26)
ftp9
sftp9
bittorrent8
rpc8
aria28
http8
traits7
command-line7
rna-seq7
computational-biology6
jupyter-notebook6
biodiversity6
ipython6
jupyterlab6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
naturalis/mixed-reads-assembly-Erycina
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:46 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
JDOUBLE-U/IBL_NRPSPKS
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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