Pioneering Biodiversity: Citrullus colocynthis Genome Becomes the First ERGA Community Genome
“Being part of ERGA facilitated collaboration and resource sharing, which were instrumental in achieving the project’s goals.” - says the project leader Anestis Gkanogiannis, PhD. This genome unlocks exciting new research opportunities. Discover more on the ERGABlog
Senior AI/ML and genomics practitioner with ~15 years building open-source, production-grade tools for large-scale biological data. Maintainer of multiple Bioconductor packages (fastreeR, metabinR, jvecfor), and author of agentic, LLM-driven tooling that runs reproducible bioinformatics workflows from natural-language requests.
Broad multi-omics background spanning genome assembly and annotation, population genomics, large-scale NGS and functional-genomics analysis, and metagenomics, backed by reproducible HPC software and end-to-end program leadership. Currently focused on bringing modern AI — embeddings, deep learning, and LLM-based agents — to making complex omics datasets faster and easier to interrogate.