about me
I'm a 1st year MSc student Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity at the Utrecht University with a broad interest, always looking to learn new things. Visualizing and gaining insight into data is something I enjoy doing. The complexities of biological systems fascinate me, I believe the multidisciplinary field of bioinformatics is the key to understanding these systems.
Hobbies
Besides Bioinformatics I of course also enjoy a range of other things. I am a huge music fan, I love listening to music and finding new genres to enjoy. Furthermore, I enjoy bouldering. I like the challenge of solving boulder problems.
Projects
I enjoy to push myself with projects, here are a few which I've produced over the past years.
Microverse-Mapper
For my bachelor internship in Jena, Germany, I worked on an interactive webtool to visualize global microbiome distribution. Microbial community composition can be derived from metagenomic sequencing and grouped into Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), which, together with sample metadata, form large and complex datasets that are difficult to explore and place into a global context.
The goal was to develop the Microverse-Mapper, a user-friendly interactive webtool for exploring global microbiome data, linking microbial patterns to metadata, and mapping a user's own OTU data onto a global microbial landscape.
The webtool is available at microverse-mapper.uni-jena.de, and the related poster can be viewed here.
Musician Recommendation Graph
This tool asks the user for one or more musician. it then uses the last.fm api to produce a graph of related artists.
Arduino Scrolling Text Display
An Arduino project that reads a text file from a microSD card and displays it as scrolling text on a MAX7219 4-in-1 LED matrix display.
Rosalind.info
Rosalind is a platform for learning bioinformatics through problem solving. I've solved a quite few of these problems, currently being in the 98th percentile of its users.
Hovercraft
In my final year of VWO I built a hovercraft as a project. The hovercraft was controlled using an arduino which could be connected to your phone. It was a fun project and I learned a lot from it.
Terminal Mandelbrot Viewer
I wrote a Mandelbrot viewer which can be run in the terminal. It uses the numpy library to calculate the Mandelbrot set. The getkey library is used to explore the Mandelbrot set using user inputs.
FASTQ Parser Challenge
As an exercise to learn new programming languages I've written fastq parsers in a few different languages. The languages I've used are: Python, Rust, Lua, AWK, Bash, Haskell, Java, Julia, and R. In addition to the core fastq parsing functionality some include extra feaetures such as a sliding window sequence trimmer or a N50 read statistic.
16S rRNA Classifier
I wrote a simple 16S rRNA taxonomic classifier script. It compares the sequence to other 16 rRNA sequences and uses the overlap percentage to estimate the taxa. The tool can classify around 60% of sequences up to its Order.
More projects can be found on my github page