Skills sharpened. Tools ready
Skills sharpened. Tools ready
🛠️ Technical Skillset
NGS Workflow Development
▸ End-to-end pipelines for Illumina & Nanopore data
▸ De novo genome assembly, polishing, and annotation
▸ Reference-based mapping, variant calling, consensus building
▸ Quality control and contamination detection
AMR Surveillance & Genomic Epidemiology
▸ AMR gene prediction: AMRFinderPlus, ResFinder, CARD
▸ Phylogenetic reconstruction: IQ-TREE, RAxML, FastTree
▸ Transmission mapping: Microreact, Nextstrain, GrapeTree
▸ Metadata integration: iTOL, Pathogenwatch, ExcelR, R/tidyverse
▸ Genomic clustering and outbreak detection
Metagenomics & Microbiome Analysis
▸ Taxonomic classification: Kraken2, Bracken, Centrifuge, Kaiju
▸ Resistome and virulome profiling: RGI, AbritaMR, resfinder
▸ 16S/ITS pipelines: DADA2, QIIME2
▸ Environmental and wastewater metagenomics
▸ Visualization: Krona, Pavian, phyloseq, ggplot2
Languages:
Python, R, Bash, SQL, HTML, YAML
Packages & Libraries:
▸ R: tidyverse, tidymoels, Bioconductor, phyloseq, ape, caret, ggplot2
▸ Python: pandas, Biopython, matplotlib, seaborn, scikit-learn
▸ Workflow control: Snakemake, Nextflow, Makefiles
▸ Reproducible analysis: Quarto, RMarkdown, JupyterLab
Version Control & Documentation:
Git, GitHub
Workflow Managers: Snakemake, Nextflow
Containerization: Singularity, Docker
Computing Environments: Linux (Ubuntu), HPC clusters (SLURM)
Reproducible Reporting: Quarto, RMarkdown, JupyterLab, GitHub, VSCode
⚙️Toolbox
Data Processing: fastp, FastQC, multiQC, seqtk, BBMap
Genome Assembly & Annotation: SPAdes, Unicycler, QUAST, Prokka, PGAP, Busco, CheckM
Variant Analysis: BWA, Bowtie2, samtools, bcftools, iVar, LoFreq, FreeBayes, GATK
Consensus & Coverage: BEDtools, mosdepth, ivar consensus, seqkit stats
AMR & Gene Profiling: abricate, AMRFinderPlus, CARD, ResFinder, RGI, PointFinder
Typing & MLST: MLST, chewBBACA, cgMLST, SISTR, Kleborate, TB-Profiler
Phylogenomics & Clustering: Nextstrain, IQ-TREE, RAxML, Mash, SNP-dists, Microreact
Data QC & Preprocessing: fastp, FastQC, multiQC, seqkit, Trimmomatic, nanoQC porechop, nanoFilt
Assembly & Annotation: SPAdes, Flye, megahit, Unicycler, QUAST, CheckM, CheckV, Busco, Prokka, PGAP
Variant Calling: BWA, Bowtie2, samtools, iVar, LoFreq, bcftools, GATK, FreeBayes
Consensus Generation & Coverage: iVar, BEDtools, mosdepth, Qualimap, seqtk
AMR Profiling: abricate, AbritAMR, AMRFinderPlus, CARD, ResFinder, RGI, PointFinder
Typing & Genotyping: MLST, chewBBACA, cgMLST, Kleborate, TB-Profiler, SISTR
Functional Annotation: HUMAnN, eggNOG-mapper, Metaxa2, fmh-funprofiler, Dada2
Microbiome Stats: phyloseq, vegan, microbiomeSeq, DESeq2, ALDEx2
Taxonomic Classification: Kraken2, KrakenUniq, Centrifuge, Kaiju, Bracken, MetaPhlAn
Phylogenetics: IQ-TREE, RAxML, FastTree, MAFFT, SNP-sites, SNP-dists, parsnps
Genomic Epidemiology Platforms: Nextstrain, Augur, Microreact, Phandango, PopPUNK
Lineage Assignment: pangolin, Nextclade, GrapeTree, SNPcluster
Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)
Illumina Paired-End Reads
Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) Long Reads
PacBio HiFi Long Reads
Hi-C Chromatin Conformation Data
16S and 18S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing
Shotgun Metagenomics
Hybrid Assemblies (e.g., Illumina + ONT / PacBio)
RNA-Seq / Transcriptomics
Environmental DNA (eDNA)
Targeted Enrichment Panels (e.g., ARTIC, VSP2)