Joana Tavares
Bioinformatician
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoana Tavares is a bioinformatician with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and production web applications for clinical genomics. Based in Lisbon, she combines deep domain knowledge of NGS tools (BWA, GATK, Freebayes, VEP, VCFanno) with software engineering practices (Docker, Django, PostgreSQL) to deliver scalable workflows that accelerate variant annotation and clinical reporting. Her work has spanned research on RNA-seq and alternative splicing to operationalising pipelines that integrate ClinVar, gnomAD, COSMIC and other resources for diagnostic use, directly improving lab productivity and revenue. Comfortable coding in Bash, Python and R, she focuses on pragmatic automation and reproducibility to turn complex genomic data into actionable clinical insights. Notably, she led development of a production laboratory platform that bridges research-grade analyses and routine clinical interpretation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Master's degree, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University of Lisbon
Github Skills (8)
seq10
rna-seq9
genomics8
bioinformatics8
snakemake7
scalable5
python2
sequence1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jpmtavares/vaRiants-annotation
Apr 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:108 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
jpmtavares/GENEVA
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:103 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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