Ralf Weber
Director Of Bioinformatics (Phenome Centre Birmingham)
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRalf Weber is Director of Bioinformatics at the Phenome Centre Birmingham and an Associate Professor in Data Science and Computational Metabolomics with over 11 years of experience driving mass spectrometry–based metabolomics research and infrastructure. He progressed from a PhD developing novel analytical and bioinformatics methods to leading a centre that translates complex spectral datasets into actionable biological insight. Ralf combines academic leadership with practical DevOps skills, contributing package maintenance and new recipes to the widely used Bioconda channel (e.g., cfm-id, sirius-csifingerid). Based in Birmingham, he is known for bridging method development, reproducible software packaging, and team-driven data science to accelerate metabolomics workflows.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mass Spectrometry-based Metabolomics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mass Spectrometry-based Metabolomics at The University of BirminghamBachelor of Science (BS), Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioinformatics at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
English, Dutch
Github Skills (9)
bioinformatics10
conda10
develop10
software-packaging10
recipe10
package-management10
build-automation9
bash9
yaml8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Aug 2016 - Feb 2022
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Package Maintainer
DevOps Engineer & Package MaintainerContributions:2 reviews, 43 commits, 77 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ralf primarily contributed to maintaining and updating recipes for the Bioconda channel. Their work involved bumping versions of existing software packages like `dimspy` and `MetFrag`, adjusting build scripts, and adapting them to new system requirements. Furthermore, they added new recipes such as `cfm-id` and `sirius-csifingerid`, demonstrating their proficiency in packaging and dependency management within the Conda ecosystem.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
computational-metabolomics/cfm-galaxy
Mar 2019 - Sep 2023
Galaxy tool for applying Competitive Fragmentation Modeling (CFM)
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
fragmentationgalaxycfmgalaxy-toolmodeling
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