José Herrera
Principal Bioinformatician
Denmark
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Top SchoolJosé Herrera is a Principal Bioinformatician with 11 years of experience specializing in NGS, genomics, proteomics and integrative data analysis. He combines a strong academic foundation (PhD in Bioinformatics) with hands-on bioinformatics engineering—building analysis pipelines, R/Shiny apps, and reproducible Git-based workflows for transcriptomics and single-cell projects. His work spans machine learning and association mining from his PhD to neural-network applications in biomedical datasets and practical downstream support for stem cell biology labs. At HeaDS he helped design sandbox infrastructure for the Danish national supercomputer, blending user support with scalable compute solutions. Colleagues describe him as proactive, communicative, and team-oriented, with a knack for translating complex biological questions into robust in-silico analyses.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy, Bioinformatics at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenMaster's degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Master's degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Escuela Nacional de Sanidad Carlos IIIBachelor’s Degree, Biotechnology, Final Grade: 8.356, Bachelor’s Degree, Biotechnology, Final Grade: 8.356 at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
English, Spanish
Github Skills (64)
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
data-science9
singularity9
slurm9
reproducible-science9
dataflow9
reproducible-research9
nextflow9
aws9
docker8
genomics8
differential-expression8
groovy8
pipeline8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joseale2310/minigame
Apr 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
hds-sandbox/bulk_RNAseq_course
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Repository for bulk RNAseq course of the Danish Health Data Science Sandbox project.
Contributions:10 releases, 98 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 3 months
data-sciencerna-seqbioinformaticsbulkrnaseqngs
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