Pedro Torres
Director, Bioinformatics And Data Science
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Torres is a microbiologist-turned-bioinformatician and data science leader with 10 years of experience translating multi-omics data into commercial and clinical impact. As Director of Bioinformatics and Data Science at Persephone Biosciences he has built production AWS data lakes, designed pangenomic and functional clustering methods, and led projects that drove a Nature paper submission and a planned consumer probiotic launch. He combines deep lab experience (NGS assay design, metagenomics/metatranscriptomics) with practical engineering—streamlining pipelines to cut costs and accelerate analysis while retaining unknown functional signals for later discovery. Pedro has applied probabilistic clustering and feature-selection to deliver personalized nutrition and infant-health insights, including a demonstrated 3x reduction in adverse outcomes in a two-year follow-up. Known for integrating knowledge graphs, chatbots, and Streamlit apps to make complex evidence actionable, he bridges research, product, and regulatory needs to move microbiome science toward real-world therapies.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MiraCosta CollegeUniversity of California, San DiegoBS Biology, BS Biology at UC Santa BarbaraMaster of Science (M.S.) Microbiology, Master of Science (M.S.) Microbiology at San Diego State University
English, Spanish, python, r
Github Skills (33)
work-flow10
removal10
bowtie10
shotgun9
ncbi9
population-genetics8
metagenomics8
pathogen8
microbiome8
classifier8
bioinformatics8
taxonomy7
partition7
sequence7
comparative-genomics7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pjtorres/viral_bioaerosol
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
high-qualityqualityforward
pjtorres/Viral_metagenomics
Apr 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:132 commits, 2 PRs, 128 pushes in 4 years 2 months
metagenomicswork-flowviralcontaminationchecking
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