Mar Gonzalez-porta
ENA & BioSamples Team Lead at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMar Gonzalez-porta is a senior bioinformatician and team leader with 13 years’ experience delivering clinical-scale genomics (WGS and PCR) in ISO 15189 and PHMC settings, currently leading the ENA & BioSamples team at EMBL-EBI. He has driven national-scale programs and product development—from building QC pipelines for a 100K-genome initiative to launching long-read pharmacogenomics workflows in industry—and combines hands-on pipeline engineering with regulatory-quality management. His background spans academic innovation in transcriptomics and splicing (PhD, Cambridge) to operational leadership in high-throughput PCR labs during COVID-19, demonstrating an ability to translate research tools into audited clinical practice. Notably, he has contributed to GA4GH standards for WGS benchmarking and developed openly shared QC and visualization tools, reflecting a commitment to reproducible, community-driven genomics.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Bioinformatics Functional Genomics, PhD in Bioinformatics Functional Genomics at University of CambridgeBSc Biotechnology, BSc Biotechnology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili
English, Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
bioinformatics10
rna-seq10
genomics10
data-analysis9
r8
npm7
reference-implementation7
python6
bioconda5
pypi5
simpletest4
typo33
testing3
bam3
nextflow3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
c-BIG/wgs-sample-qc
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
Repository to host ongoing discussions by GHIF members on developing a reference implementation for QC of WGS results
Contributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
developinghostongoingwgsmembers
mgonzalezporta/tviz
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
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