Redmar Van Den Berg
Bioinformatician
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRedmar Van Den Berg is a bioinformatician with 13 years of experience applying computational methods to microbiology and clinical genetics from Leiden, Netherlands. He combines a strong academic background in theoretical biology and bioinformatics with hands-on roles at Leiden University Medical Center and the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, supporting both research and clinical workflows. Technically fluent in Python and pipeline development, he contributed a CCS module to the widely used MultiQC project, demonstrating practical expertise in parsing diverse sequencing outputs and integrating new modules into open-source tooling. His early research on immune proteins and evolutionary modeling shows a knack for connecting biological insight to reproducible software, and he often builds reusable analysis pipelines that blend third-party tools with custom code.
13 years of coding experience
Master's Degree, Theoretical biology/Bioinformatics, Master's Degree, Theoretical biology/Bioinformatics at Utrecht University
Dutch, English
Github Skills (7)
bioinformatics10
data-parsing10
python10
mu10
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
MultiQC/MultiQC
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 142 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Redmar primarily contributed to the development of a new "ccs" (Consensus Calling for Sequencing) module for the bioinformatics tool MultiQC. They added the necessary scaffolding, parsing logic for CCS log files, and implemented support for various data formats, including counts, percentages, and combined data with annotations. The work involved changes to multiple files, including Python modules and configuration files to integrate the new module and parse its output.
multiqcpythonpypianalysesbioconda
biowdl/PacBio-variantcalling
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
Variant calling workflow for targetted PacBio read data. Category:Multi-Sample
Contributions:2 releases, 13 PRs, 76 pushes in 5 months
callingvariant-callingcategorypacbioworkflow
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