Gerhard Schöfl
Head Of Bioinformatics
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolGerhard Schöfl is Head of Bioinformatics at DKMS Life Science Lab in Dresden, bringing 11 years of experience in R-driven data science, statistics, and predictive modeling applied to HLA bioinformatics and NGS workflows. He leads algorithm development and specialised software implementation for high-resolution, sequence-based HLA genotyping, and champions adoption of long-read technologies (PacBio, Oxford Nanopore) to improve phasing and typing accuracy. With a strong academic foundation in population genetics and a history of generating fully phased HLA references through hybrid error correction, he combines rigorous statistical training with hands-on sequencing expertise. Gerhard also teaches applied statistics and has translated population-genetics research across diverse organisms into robust bioinformatic pipelines, reflecting a rare mix of domain depth and practical engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mag. rer. nat., Zoology/Animal Biology, Mag. rer. nat., Zoology/Animal Biology at Universität WienEcology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology at University of Bergen (UiB)Biology, General, Biology, General at Karl-Franzens-Universität GrazDr. rer. nat., Population Genetics, Dr. rer. nat., Population Genetics at Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien
English, Norwegian, German
Github Skills (8)
ncbi10
genbank10
hla9
bioinformatics9
nomenclature9
ftp5
databases3
database2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gschofl/blastr
Jul 2014 - Apr 2015
R wrapper for NCBI's blast
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
ncbi
gschofl/biofiles
Jul 2014 - Sep 2020
R interface to GenBank/GenPept files
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 6 years 2 months
genbank
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