José Cañas
Senior Bioinformatics Specialist
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Cañas is a Senior Bioinformatics Specialist with 13 years of experience applying genomics and NGS-driven pipelines to clinical diagnostics at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. He combines a PhD in Genome Sciences with hands-on implementation of automation, QC, and patient-centric reporting to improve molecular microbiology and genetics workflows. An educator as well as a practitioner, he teaches advanced genome bioinformatics and supervises MSc theses, bridging academic rigor with clinical translation. He also advocates for clinical bioinformatics standards through SEBiBC and has international research experience from centres like CRG, Oxford Genomics Centre and Duke. Colleagues describe him as equally fascinated by computational problem-solving and the complexity of life—a perspective that has driven tool and pipeline development since his PhD work on mammalian gene evolution.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genome Sciences/Genomics, Excellent cum laude (with International Mention and special prize), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genome Sciences/Genomics, Excellent cum laude (with International Mention and special prize) at Universitat Pompeu FabraLicenciatura, Biology, Licenciatura, Biology at Universitat de Barcelona
Catalan, spanish (castillian), English
Github Skills (69)
genomes10
immunology10
genomics10
next-generation-sequencing10
rna-seq10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
singularity9
reproducible-science9
nextflow9
pipeline9
variants9
seq9
nf-core9
reproducible-research9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
egenomics/palo
Jan 2013 - Nov 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 6 years 11 months
CDB-coreBM/covid19clinic
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:357 commits, 120 pushes in 1 year
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