José Herrera
Principal Bioinformatician
Denmark
Summary
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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 (79)
sandbox10
health-data10
health10
bioinformatics10
differential-expression9
science9
genomics9
pipeline8
nextflow8
linting8
genome8
data-science8
nf-core7
reproducible-science7
linter7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joseale2310/minigame
Apr 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
hds-sandbox/hds-sandbox.github.io
May 2022 - Mar 2023
Website for the Health Data Science Sandbox
Contributions:15 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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