Mr. Kastens studied bioinformatics at the University of Applied Sciences Bingen and at the University of Hamburg. He obtained his M.Sc. in 2012 after the successful development of LTRsift, a graphical user interface for semi-automatic classification and post-processing of de novo detected LTR retrotransposons. Mr. Kastens has extensive expertise in Software Development, especially with scripting languages like Python and R. In 2012, Mr. Kastens joined the GATC Biotech R&D team, where he plays an instrumental role in developing bioinformatics pipelines for data analysis for sequencing projects.
Bioinformatics