Paolo Uva
Head Of Clinical Bioinformatics Unit
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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Top SchoolPaolo Uva is Head of the Clinical Bioinformatics Unit in Genoa with 13 years of experience translating NGS and genome-wide data into answers for inherited disorders. He combines academic rigor—PhD in molecular phylogeny and a Master in bioinformatics—with long-standing roles at CRS4, Merck, and research hospitals, driving pipelines for variant discovery and clinical interpretation. Paolo bridges research and application as an external collaborator with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, steering projects from database and annotation tools to diagnostic-grade analyses. His background in large-scale sequence annotation and custom microarray platforms gives him a rare blend of hands-on data engineering and clinical genetics insight.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Molecular phylogeny, PhD, Molecular phylogeny at Université de ToursMaster, Bioinformatics, Master, Bioinformatics at University of GenevaLaurea, Biology, Laurea, Biology at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (66)
predictor10
galaxy9
vep9
fasta9
bioinformatics9
pypi9
wrapper9
bioconda8
interpretation8
genomics8
variants8
fastq8
webservice8
biodiversity8
sequencing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
igg-bioinfo/diva.wes
Sep 2020 - Nov 2024
DiVA (DNA Variant Analysis) is a pipeline for Next-Generation Sequencing Exome data analysis
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 50 pushes in 4 years 2 months
next-generationdata-analysispipelinednavariant-analysis
crs4/kggseq_archive
Feb 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 6 tags in 3 years 4 months
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