Johannes Helmuth
Head Of Bioinformatics & Data Science
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJohannes Helmuth is Head of Bioinformatics & Data Science at Labor Berlin with 11 years of experience translating advanced genomics research into robust clinical diagnostics. He holds a PhD in Computational Epigenomics and built normalization and analysis methods for RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and other NGS modalities to study chromatin-driven transcriptional regulation. At Labor Berlin he leads deployment of failsafe, accredited bioinformatics pipelines across hematology/oncology, human genetics, microbiology and virology, bridging diagnostic labs and academic innovation. His background combines deep statistical and machine-learning expertise with hands-on systems administration and variant database development, enabling rapid assay validation and routine diagnostic adoption. Outside diagnostics he contributes to free software for audio production, reflecting a practical engineering mindset beyond genomics.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, magna cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, magna cum laude at Freie Universität BerlinDiplom, Bioinformatik, Very good, Diplom, Bioinformatik, Very good at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (81)
genomics10
genome10
sequencing10
pypi10
bioinformatics10
next-generation-sequencing9
annotate9
science9
data-visualization9
rna-seq9
variants9
python9
gatk9
genetics9
fm-index9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LaborBerlin/hum-exomiser-fork
Apr 2018 - Sep 2024
A Tool to Annotate and Prioritize Exome Variants
Contributions:6 reviews, 13 PRs, 36 pushes in 6 years 6 months
exomeannotate
your-highness/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:32 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years
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