Nabil-fareed Alikhan
Senior Bioinformatician
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNabil-fareed Alikhan is a senior bioinformatician and microbial genomicist with 14 years’ experience applying population genomics to public health and pathogen surveillance. Based in London, he has led teams and infrastructure at Quadram Institute and contributed at scale to national SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and COG-UK, curating and analysing tens of thousands of genomes. He combines a strong computational background (IT and software engineering degrees) with a PhD in microbial genomics to build and maintain web and cloud platforms such as EnteroBase for large-scale bacterial genomics. Skilled in strategic planning, budgeting and training, he has secured capital grants to expand institute computing capacity and operationalised sample inventory and sequencing workflows. Equally comfortable in hands-on analysis and senior leadership, he works at the intersection of research, public health policy and open infrastructure. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he’s equally at home tuning HPC pipelines as presenting genomic evidence to government stakeholders.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of Queensland
English
Github Skills (87)
blast10
package-management10
genomics10
bioconda10
microbiology10
conda10
java10
visualization10
tree10
genome-analysis10
bioinformatics10
sequence10
comparative-genomics10
journal9
linux9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
happykhan/ronasub
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Helper scripts for merging and submitting SARSCOV data to ENA, NCBI, COG
Contributions:7 PRs, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
ncbi
ghruproject/GHRU-assembly
Dec 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 27 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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