Scientific advice
Bioinformatics Development
GATC BIOTECH
Sweden
Dr. Kumar earned his master’s degree in biological sciences before going on to obtain a Ph.D. in bioinformatics from the Technical University of Munich. He continued his research as a post-doctoral scholar in the area of phylogenetics and metagenomics. In 2006, he joined GATC Biotech’s Bioinformatics Development department. His main responsibilities in the company include the development of strategies, tools and pipelines to analyse and interpret NGS and Sanger sequencing data for academic and commercial projects. He is actively engaged in various publicly funded projects, including Klebsicure, NanoDiaMed and SysClad.
Phylogenetics and metagenomics.