Mattias de Hollander

Mattias has a Msc degree in Bioinformatics from the Wageningen University and is working as bioinformatician at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology since 2010. He contributed to the growth and development of the bioinformatics at the insitute by introducing it and continues to professionalize it, making several web-services available, organizing carpentry workshop to teach basic skills and develop analysis pipelines. He is an early adopter of the Snakemake workflow management system and have been developing pipelines with it since 2012 in combination with Bioconda, mostly in the metagenomics fields. He advocates the use and development of open-source software and reproducible research.