Tomáš Pluskal
External Consultant at IOCB Prague - Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolTomáš Pluskal is a metabolomics specialist and molecular biologist with 20 years of experience who blends deep wet-lab expertise with computer science to build practical tools for mass spectrometry data analysis. He leads a research group at IOCB Prague, co-founded mzio to productize mass-spec software, and serves as an external consultant for biotech firms including Novogaia and Ginkgo Bioworks. A PhD in Molecular Biotechnology and an M.Sc. in Computer Science underpin his interdisciplinary approach, enabling him to move smoothly between experiment design, data processing, and algorithm development. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core chemistry tooling in the widely used Chemistry Development Kit by enhancing molecular formula generation and maintainability—demonstrating a habit of fixing subtle issues that improve reproducibility. Based in Prague, he combines academic leadership with hands-on engineering, often implementing niche but impactful improvements that accelerate metabolomics workflows.
20 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Biotechnology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Biotechnology at Hiroshima UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Charles University in Prague
English, Czech, Japanese, German
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
javas10
java10
cheminformatics9
bioinformatics9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cdk/cdk
May 2012 - Sep 2017
The Chemistry Development Kit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 9 PRs, 48 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tomáš primarily worked on the `MolecularFormulaManipulator` class, modifying its methods to enhance the functionality for representing and generating molecular formulas. Their contributions include refactoring the `getHTML` method to improve the ordering of elements and adding an option to specify element order as a parameter. Furthermore, the user deprecated the `getHillString()` method and fixed a typo, improving code maintainability. The user also added a new MolecularFormulaGenerator.
cheminformaticsdevelopment-kitchemistrychemistry-development-kitbioinformatics
mzmine/mzmine2
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
MZmine 2 source code repository
Contributions:40 releases, 11 commits, 392 PRs in 9 months
code-repository
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