Mahesh Binzer-panchal
Bioinformatician
Uppsala, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMahesh Binzer-panchal is a bioinformatician with 10+ years’ experience specializing in genome assembly, NGS quality control, and Nextflow-based workflow development at NBIS in Uppsala. He combines hands-on assembly and validation across short- and long-read data with support for variant calling, aDNA and metagenomics projects, and teaches genome assembly and Nextflow in national training programs. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core nf-core tooling and modules—helping harden pipeline templates, linting, and tool-specific Nextflow DSL2 modules used widely by the community. Comfortable across Docker/Singularity environments and practical pipeline engineering, he brings research-rooted rigor from a PhD background to production-ready workflow design and reproducible genomics.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Automation and Evaluation of Nested Clade Phylogeographic Analysis, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Automation and Evaluation of Nested Clade Phylogeographic Analysis at University of ReadingBachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, 2:1 at Imperial College London
Swedish, German
Github Skills (12)
linter10
bioinformatics10
go-modules10
linting10
jsmodules10
workflow-engine10
kernel-module10
python10
nextflow10
pipeline10
yaml10
dsl10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
nf-core/modules
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Repository to host tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:465 reviews, 114 commits, 128 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mahesh made significant contributions to the chromap module, a tool-specific module for the Nextflow DSL2 community, by implementing new features and addressing bugs. Their work included initializing the module, adapting it to a new layout, adding compression, updating container configurations, and testing. Additionally, the user integrated the bcftools/concat module, drafting the module and implementing preliminary tests.
nf-corehostnextflow-dsl2nextflowdsl2
nf-core/tools
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Python package with helper tools for the nf-core community.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 101 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mahesh's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the nf-core/tools repository, which supports the nf-core community. They implemented improvements to the pipeline template, including updates to software version handling and YAML output. The user also contributed to the linting tools, refining file existence checks and module functions, and streamlining version collection. Furthermore, the user's work demonstrates proficiency in modifying Nextflow configuration files.
nf-corelinterpythonpipelinelinting
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