Simon Pearce
Bioinformatician
Summary
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RockstarSimon Pearce is a bioinformatician and mathematician with nine years of experience building reproducible, scalable genomics workflows, currently contributing at NeoGenomics. As a Nextflow Ambassador and nf-core Maintainer, he specializes in developing and hardening DSL2 modules—adding and testing integrations for tools like Samtools, ichorCNA and NGSCheckMate to enable containerized, conda-backed pipelines. He blends applied mathematics with practical engineering to solve messy data-processing challenges and improve pipeline reliability in production. Notably, his work on the nf-core/modules repo helps a large community run reproducible analyses across diverse compute environments.
9 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (20)
go-modules10
dsl10
workflow-engine10
kernel-module10
nextflow10
workflow-automation10
pipeline10
bioinformatics10
jsmodules10
argo-workflows10
conda9
python8
r7
samtools7
dendrogram6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nf-core/modules
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Repository to host tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1567 reviews, 17 commits, 596 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to developing and maintaining modules within the `nf-core/modules` repository, which hosts tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community. Their contributions included creating, updating, and testing modules for bioinformatics tools like Samtools, hmmcopy, ichorCNA, and NGSCheckMate. These modules involve modifying Nextflow scripts, integrating with conda environments, and configuring containerized execution, thereby enabling reproducible and scalable bioinformatics workflows.
nf-corehostnextflow-dsl2nextflowdsl2
GallVp/nf-modules
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Repository to host tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community!
Contributions:94 pushes in 9 months
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