Jens Allmer
Professor at Hochschule Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJens Allmer is a professor and bioinformatics leader with over a decade of experience running state-of-the-art sequencing facilities and leading the accompanying computational analyses. He has directed platforms using PacBio, 10xGenomics, Illumina, Oxford Nanopore and optical mapping, and translated that expertise into teaching Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics at Hochschule Ruhr West. His career spans academia and industry—co-founding a biotech startup, leading cluster operations at Wageningen, and holding research positions in Germany, Turkey, and the US—bringing a rare blend of hands-on sequencing lab management and software-driven data analysis. Jens holds a Habilitation in Bioinformatics and a Doctor of Science in Biology, and is skilled at turning complex omics workflows into reproducible pipelines and curricula. An understated strength is his experience building cross-institutional collaborations and platforms for harvesting and reasoning over large sensor and sequencing datasets.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Science Biology, Doctor of Science Biology at University of MünsterMaster of Science (MSc) Biology, Master of Science (MSc) Biology at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münsterhigh school diploma Mathematics, high school diploma Mathematics at Shafter high schoolHabilitation Bioinformatics, Habilitation Bioinformatics at Turkish Inter-University CouncilA-Levels Chemistry, A-Levels Chemistry at Gymnasium Laurentianum Warendorfnone Biology, none Biology at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jenanone Biology, none Biology at University of Pennsylvania
English, German, Turkish, French, Dutch
Github Skills (50)
to-do9
discord-bot9
rna-seq8
language-model7
bioinformatics6
python6
sequence-analysis6
nextjs6
expressjs6
chatbot5
ai5
tdd5
chat5
machine-learning5
chatgpt5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
savastakan/dnmso
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
DNMSO; an Ontology for Representing De Novo Sequencing Results from Tandem-MS Data
Contributions:24 commits, 50 pushes, 3 comments in 9 months
ms-datasequencing
jallmer/jLabWeb
Mar 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:39 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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