Markus Goeker
Bioinformatiker
Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Goeker is a senior bioinformatician and phylogenomicist with a PhD and habilitation from the University of Tübingen and more than a decade leading genome-scale projects at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ. He has overseen multiple 1,000-strain sequencing collaborations with DOE-JGI partners, authored hundreds of peer-reviewed papers with a wide network of coauthors, and was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher (2019–2024). His work bridges whole-genome phylogenetics, comparative methods linking genomics to ecology, and practical bioinformatics tools—several of which (TYGS, LPSN, GGDC, VICTOR, OPM) are widely used by microbial taxonomists. Technically fluent in Ruby, R, SQL/PostgreSQL and a broad set of Unix toolchains, he combines hands-on software engineering with curation and web-service development for taxonomic and nomenclatural data. As Secretary of the ICSP Judicial Commission and chair of an ad hoc committee on nomenclature stability, he uniquely pairs deep computational expertise with leadership in prokaryotic taxonomy.
13 years of coding experience
Habilitation, Botany/Plant Biology, Habilitation, Botany/Plant Biology at Eberhard Karls Universität TübingenDiplom, Biologie, 1,0, Diplom, Biologie, 1,0 at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergGithub contributions (2)
mgoeker/table2itol
Feb 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
cran/pkgutils
Sep 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 3 months
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